Collective memory in the making of religious change: the case of ‘emerging Jews’ followers of Jesus

Carpenedo, Manoela

doi:10.1080/0048721x.2017.1386136

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“…Orthodox Christianity can be a good option for such people. While most of those dissatisfied with "older" Christian denominations convert to "ultramodernist" Pentecostal Churches, some, like Ugandan Orthodox, turn to a conservative "original", "uncorrupted" faith (e.g., Carpenedo 2017;Premawardhana 2018).…”

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Conversion to Orthodox Christianity in Uganda: A Hundred Years of Spiritual Encounter with Modernity, 1919–2019

Bondarenko

Tutorskiy

2020

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In 1919, three Ugandan Anglicans converted to Orthodox Christianity, as they became sure that this was Christianity’s original and only true form. In 1946, Ugandan Orthodox Christians aligned with the Eastern Orthodox Church of Alexandria. Since the 1990s, new trends in conversion to Orthodox Christianity in Uganda can be observed: one is some growth in the number of new converts to the canonical Orthodox Church, while another is the appearance of new Orthodox Churches, including parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church. The questions we raise in this article are: Why did some Ugandans switch from other religions to Orthodox Christianity in the first half of the 20th century and in more recent years? Were there common reasons for these two developments? We argue that both processes should be understood as attempts by some Ugandans to find their own way in the modern world. Trying to escape spiritually from the impact of colonialism, post-coloniality, and globalization, they viewed Catholicism, Anglicanism, and Islam as part of the legacy they rejected. These people did not turn to African traditional beliefs either. They already firmly saw their own tradition as Christian, but were (and are) seeking its “true”, “original” form. We emphasize that by rejecting post-colonial globalist modernity and embracing Orthodox Christianity as the basis of their own “alternative” modernity, these Ugandans themselves turn out to be modern products, and this speaks volumes about the nature of conversion in contemporary Africa. The article is based on field evidence collected in 2017–2019 as well as on print sources.

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Conversion to Orthodox Christianity in Uganda: A Hundred Years of Spiritual Encounter with Modernity, 1919–2019

Bondarenko

Tutorskiy

2020

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“…The grassroots movement proposes a dramatic adoption of an Orthodox Jewish rules and ethos among people who were not born into Jewish families. To differentiate these emerging groups from other tendencies found in American Christian Zionism or in UCKG Neo-Pentecostalism, I coined the term ‘Judaizing Evangelicalism’ (Carpenedo, 2018). The organization is composed by a network of middle to small congregations spread in urban and rural parts of Brazil, totalizing nearly 8000 members.…”

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Christian Zionist religiouscapes in Brazil: Understanding Judaizing practices and Zionist inclinations in Brazilian Charismatic Evangelicalism

Carpenedo

2021

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The increasing appropriation by Charismatic Evangelicals of Jewish narratives, rituals, and even Zionist anxieties is now evident in many parts of the globe. Drawing on two cases, one based on a Brazilian Neo-Pentecostal church and another based on an ethnographic investigation of a ‘Judaizing Evangelical’ community in Brazil this study interrogates to what extent we can comprehend this emerging tendency within Brazilian Charismatic Evangelicalism as a result of the spread of Anglo-American Christian Zionism. The article contends that while there are significant overlaps between Anglo-American Christian Zionism and the Zionist and Judaizing tendencies within Brazilian Charismatic Evangelicalism, it is reductionist to comprehend the Brazilian case exclusively through Anglo-American frameworks. Given the particularities of the Brazilian Charismatic evangelical context, the article points to the unique ways in which Christian Zionist tendencies are being ‘glocalized’ in this country.

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“…A crescente apropriação de símbolos e elementos judaicos por evangélicos, sobretudo pentecostais e renovados (TOPEL, 2011;CARPENEDO, 2017, JOVEGELEVICIUS, 2018, COSTA, 2017, BARBOSA, 2017, MAYNARD, 2016, pode contribuir para uma maior visibilidade do Judaísmo Messiânico no Brasil. Enquanto as comunidades judaicas tradicionais se mostram pouco receptivas aos cristãos interessados em conhecer mais sobre o Judaísmo, "a religião de Jesus", os judeus messiânicos veem a participação de gentios em seus rituais como inerente a sua fé, uma espécie de resgate do cristianismo primevo.…”

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Judeus messiânicos em Belo Horizonte-MG

Castro

2021

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Este artigo tem como intuito analisar a construção de identidades religiosas judias messiânicas em Belo Horizonte-MG, frente a irmãos de fé evangélicos. O Judaísmo Messiânico, movimento religioso polêmico que ganhou força nos EUA no século XX e vem se difundindo globalmente, reconhece Yeshua (Jesus) como o Messias. O caso belo-horizontino é particularmente interessante por abrigar uma comunidade messiânica que se auto- intitula a maior da América Latina, ao mesmo tempo em que sedia igrejas evangélicas de projeção nacional e uma tradicional e profunda herança cultural católica. Como judeus messiânicos, isto é, judeus que creem em Jesus, definem sua identidade em um contexto tão acentuada e tradicionalmente cristão? Como demarcam suas diferenças? Que alianças e tensões estabelecem com outros atores do campo religioso local? Focaremos aqui o relacionamento estabelecido com o Ministério Diante do Trono. Através de análise de conteúdo de websites, vídeos e perfis em redes sociais, será produzido conhecimento sobre a construção de uma identidade religiosa minoritária de visibilidade crescente.

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Collective memory in the making of religious change: the case of ‘emerging Jews’ followers of Jesus

Cited by 9 publications

References 18 publications

Conversion to Orthodox Christianity in Uganda: A Hundred Years of Spiritual Encounter with Modernity, 1919–2019

Conversion to Orthodox Christianity in Uganda: A Hundred Years of Spiritual Encounter with Modernity, 1919–2019

Christian Zionist religiouscapes in Brazil: Understanding Judaizing practices and Zionist inclinations in Brazilian Charismatic Evangelicalism

Judeus messiânicos em Belo Horizonte-MG

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