Evangelical Gypsies in Spain: "The Bible is our Promised Land"

by Manuela Cantón-Delgado, Daniel L. Smith-Christopher (Editor), Melchor Pisa Borja (Afterword), Cristina Marcos Montiel (Editor), Salvador Medina Baena (Editor)

Overview

The conversion of Spanish Roma to Pentecostal Evangelical Protestantism is one of the most unknown yet important modern religious movements. Its current spectacular transnational growth is due, among others factors, to the fact that it is directed, organized, and composed of Gypsies. This book provides one of the first serious analyses of an important historical, theological, and ethnographic account of the Pentecostal Revival movement that has been sweeping through the Southern European Roma/Gypsy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498580939
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	08/26/2020
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.18(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Manuela Cantón-Delgado, who led the research team that produced this work,is currently a professor in the department of social anthropology at the University of Seville, Spain.

Daniel L. Smith-Christopher led the translation project and edited the English. He is professor of Old Testament at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Prologues

Prologue to the Spanish Edition (2004), Dr. Teresa San Roman…………….

Author’s Prologue to the Spanish Edition (2004)…………………………….

Editor’s Prologue to the English Edition (2019)……………………………..



Acknowledgments…………………………………………………………………..

Chapters

1.Lower Andalusia Gypsies: Margins, Stigmas and History

2.The Origins of Gypsy Protestantism

3.The Philadelphia Evangelical Church: Formal Aspects, Representations,

and Practices

4.Catholic and Protestant Gypsies in Jerez de la Frontera:

An exchange of glances

5.“These Gypsies have become Priests?”: A Polyphonic History of

The First Conversions of Andalusian Gypsies

6.The God of the Markets: Gypsy Evangelism and Itinerant Commerce

7.Detoxification Centers and Healing Practices

8.Methodological Processes: Ethnography

9.Theoretical Digression: Contemporary Secularization and Emerging Religions

10.Conclusions to the Spanish Edition (2004)

11.Almost Fifteen Years Later…(2019)



Afterword of a Gypsy Pastor…………………………………

Bibliography…………………………………………………..

About the Contributors

Editorial Reviews

The big questions about the emerging field of world Christianity are explored in this study of a trans-Andalusian ethnic group that sets in relief how evangelical and pentecostal-type converts are bringing their indigenous cultural traditions into late modernity.

Amos Yong

This enduring study of the Filadelfia Church in Central and Southern Spain provides an irreplaceable record of the character of the major Calo-Gitano led Pentecostal denomination. Cantón-Delgado also dives headlong into the theoretical questions about the effect on the economy and society not only of Cale and Roma, but their non-Gypsy neighbors who are drawn into these Calo-led congregations. This text is an indispensable building block in both Romani studies and Pentecostal revivalism.

Thomas Acton

There is a plot twist in recent Spanish religious history. Spanish Gypsies were, until the last quarter of the twentieth century, something less than an ethnic minority. Then, they converted to Pentecostal evangelism, becoming something more than a religious minority: a challenge to Catholic uniformity, to secularization, and to time-worn clichés.

Óscar Calavia Sáez

This book will overturn most of what you think you know about Gypsies. Much of the Gypsy population of Spain now belongs to, or is influenced by, Pentecostal churches. Gypsies become Pentecostals, not to reject their culture and family structures, but to deal with new threats such as drug addiction and globalization. Cantón-Delgado does an excellent job of explaining how the Gypsies beliefs and practices have evolved to deal with changing times.

David Stoll

There is a plot twist in recent Spanish religious history. Spanish Gypsies were, until the last quarter of the twentieth century, something less than an ethnic minority. Then, they converted to Pentecostal evangelism, becoming something more than a religious minority: a challenge to Catholic uniformity, to secularization, and to time-worn clichés.

Óscar Calavia Sáez