Holy Strangers

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" Holy Strangers "
Ambra Formenti

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1063808
Doc. No	:	LA107437
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18725465-01001003‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Ambra Formenti
Title & Author	:	Holy Strangers [Article]\ Ambra Formenti
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	African Diaspora
Date	:	2018
Volume/ Issue Number	:	10/1-2
Page No	:	46–71
Abstract	:	This article explores the religious lives of migrants in the African diaspora by focusing on the case of the Missão Evangélica Lusófona (MEL), a congregation settled on the outskirts of Lisbon and formed by migrants from Guinea-Bissau and other Portuguese-speaking countries. MEL is portrayed as an example of how Christian faith enables African believers to cross transnational spaces and to create new spiritual placements in the local environment they inhabit. Against the background of postcolonial Portugal, MEL’s mission discourses are analysed as narratives of moral empowerment that invert the stigmatizing representations of African migrants expressed by their Portuguese-born neighbours. Through these narratives, it is suggested, Evangelical Guinean migrants are able to face their historical and social condition of marginality, by developing a spiritual citizenship grounded in the idea of a Lusophone space of mission.
Descriptor	:	African Studies
Descriptor	:	Bissau-Guinean diaspora
Descriptor	:	Christianisme évangélique
Descriptor	:	Diaspora Bissau-guinéenne
Descriptor	:	Evangelical Christianity
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	Lisbonne
Descriptor	:	Lusophonie
Descriptor	:	Lusophony
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Descriptor	:	transnationalisme
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18725465-01001003‬