The Second Coming, Successful Life, and the Sweetness of Guinea:

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" The Second Coming, Successful Life, and the Sweetness of Guinea: "
Ambra Formenti

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1072803
Doc. No	:	LA116432
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700666-12340112‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Ambra Formenti
Title & Author	:	The Second Coming, Successful Life, and the Sweetness of Guinea: [Article] : Evangelical Thoughts about the Future in Guinea-Bissau\ Ambra Formenti
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Religion in Africa
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	47/3-4
Page No	:	346–379
Abstract	:	Hope, aspirations, and drive to the future have recently been the focus of academic concern about the ways in which people are thinking and producing their future in a time of great uncertainty. By exploring the distinct ways in which evangelical believers in Guinea-Bissau are engaged in imagining their future, this article aims to portray evangelical Christianity as a source of aspirations and visions of possible futures in contemporary Africa. Moreover, by comparing the programme of cultural and social regeneration pursued by nationalists in the 1960s and ’70s and the current evangelical project of personal and collective redemption, I argue that evangelical churches are promoting a politics of hope that translates Amílcar Cabral’s legacy in their own terms. Finally, I show how, in the wake of the failure of nationalist narratives, evangelical churches are fostering an emerging conceptualization of modernity as connectivity that underlies new dreams of a better future.
Descriptor	:	African Studies
Descriptor	:	Anthropology of Religion
Descriptor	:	aspirations
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	evangelical Christianity
Descriptor	:	Guinea-Bissau
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	hope
Descriptor	:	Middle East and Islamic Studies
Descriptor	:	modernity
Descriptor	:	Religion
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	the future
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700666-12340112‬