Pentecostalism as Cultural Resistance: Music and Tongue-speaking as Collective Response in a Brooklyn Church

Based on ethnographic research in an Afro-Caribbean Pentecostal Church in Brooklyn, this article focuses on Pentecostal music and tongue-speaking as a form of cultural resistance. At least in urban settings, Pentecostalism is a creative cultural response to collectively experienced structural proble...

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Authors: Marina, Peter (Author) ; Wilkinson, Michael D. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. [2017]
In: PentecoStudies
Year: 2017, Volume: 16, Issue: 2, Pages: 216-242
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Brooklyn, NY / Caribbean immigrant / Blacks / Afro-American syncretism / Pentecostal churches / Glossolaly / Cultural identity
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
CH Christianity and Society
KBQ North America
KBR Latin America
KDG Free church
KDH Christian sects
NBG Pneumatology; Holy Spirit
Further subjects:B Pentecostalism culture spiritual capital power tonguespeaking Afro-Caribbean religion
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Summary:Based on ethnographic research in an Afro-Caribbean Pentecostal Church in Brooklyn, this article focuses on Pentecostal music and tongue-speaking as a form of cultural resistance. At least in urban settings, Pentecostalism is a creative cultural response to collectively experienced structural problems. Scholars have demonstrated the institutional challenges for Pentecostalism including its moderating effect on tongue-speaking. This article explores how one congregation maintains vitality through the practice of speaking in tongues, music, and prayer, as a type of spiritual capital. Spiritual capital explains how Pentecostalism provides a unique form of power for members to show their own agency and resistance to institutionalization as well as structural subordination. This analysis provides a framework for understanding music, charisma, and religious vitality in a Pentecostal congregation and its relationship with the larger cultural context.
ISSN:1871-7691
Contains:Enthalten in: PentecoStudies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/ptcs.32822