The Past in Angolan Migrants' Conversion Narratives
Silence
Keywords:
Angolan and Brazilian Pentecostalism, The Netherlands, migration, memory, conversionAbstract
This article aims to explore how space and time are involved in Angolan migrants’ conversion narratives in two different Pentecostal migrant churches in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. A comparison between two strategies of pastoral care and the decisive role they play in the church adherents’ way of dealing with their past is analyzed through a theoretical framework of memory and trauma, memory and conversion and implicit social knowledge.
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