(Re-)Placing Pentecostalism: Swedish Mission and the idea of the Baltic
Coleman, Simon Michael (2015)
The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi
2015
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Simon Michael Coleman, University of Toronto
Simon Coleman gained his PhD from the University of Cambridge and has worked at Cambridge, Durham, and Sussex universities. He is Chancellor Jackman Professor at the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto. Simon has been an editor of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute and is co-editor of Religion and Society: Advances in Research and of the book series Ashgate Studies in Pilgrimage. Research interests include Pentecostalism, pilgrimage, and hospital chaplaincies. He has conducted fieldwork in Sweden, Nigeria and the United Kingdom, and is currently part of an interdisciplinary project based at the Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture (University of York), examining English cathedrals. His books include Pilgrimage Past and Present in the World Religions (1997, Harvard University Press, with John Elsner), The Globalisation of Charismatic Christianity (2000, Cambridge University Press), Reframing Pilgrimage: Cultures in Motion (2006, Routledge, edited with John Eade). His latest volume, co-edited with Rosalind Hackett, is The Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism (2015, New York University Press).
Simon Coleman gained his PhD from the University of Cambridge and has worked at Cambridge, Durham, and Sussex universities. He is Chancellor Jackman Professor at the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto. Simon has been an editor of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute and is co-editor of Religion and Society: Advances in Research and of the book series Ashgate Studies in Pilgrimage. Research interests include Pentecostalism, pilgrimage, and hospital chaplaincies. He has conducted fieldwork in Sweden, Nigeria and the United Kingdom, and is currently part of an interdisciplinary project based at the Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture (University of York), examining English cathedrals. His books include Pilgrimage Past and Present in the World Religions (1997, Harvard University Press, with John Elsner), The Globalisation of Charismatic Christianity (2000, Cambridge University Press), Reframing Pilgrimage: Cultures in Motion (2006, Routledge, edited with John Eade). His latest volume, co-edited with Rosalind Hackett, is The Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism (2015, New York University Press).
Tiivistelmä
I draw on fieldwork based in the Word of Life Ministry, Sweden, to consider how these neo-Pentecostals have constructed the Baltic as a landscape of both action and imagination. One part of my argument states that we must see the ministry’s attitudes to Sweden and the wider Baltic region in terms of its desire to situate itself within Swedish revivalist history. I also argue, however, that we can fruitfully draw on Bakhtin’s notion of the ‘chronotope’ to trace how the Baltic constitutes a potent spatio-temporal context for the construction of a narrative which encourages Word of Life members to see their missionary role as being contained within, but also looking far beyond, the Baltic Sea region.