Pilgrims in the Port

The Identity of Migrant Christian Communities in Rotterdam

Robert Calvert author Martha Frederiks editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang AG

Published:17th Dec '19

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This publication investigates new ways of understanding international churches. Based upon recent fieldwork, six migrant Christian communities in Rotterdam were analysed using congregational study methods on how they construct identity. Through the frames of ‘koinonia’, ‘diakonia’ and ‘kerygma’, this research reflects on their composition, characteristics, leadership style, language and social capital. Language is found to be an important shaper or ‘carrier’ of identity and acts both as badge and bridge of identity. In building identity, MCCs do not behave in ways expected or consistent with the process of integration.

ISBN: 9783631782637

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 494g

328 pages

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