2018
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.12915
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Pentecostal pastorhood as calling and career: migration, religion, and masculinity between Kenya and the United Kingdom

Abstract: This article explores the intertwining of migration and religion in the lives of migrant men who were born in Kenya and have become Pentecostal pastors in London. Drawing on the spiritual careers of several pastors, I suggest that pastorhood be understood as a gendered means of social mobility. As pastors, these men attain a status that is socially and culturally intelligible in London and Kenya. At the same time, given that status is contingent upon recognition, the article also examines how pastorhood helps … Show more

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“…Their founding reflects the postmigration conversion of many migrant Kenyans to Pentecostalism from the mission churches of their parents (Fesenmyer 2018). They did not find the Anglican, Catholic, and Methodist churches of their upbringings welcoming in London, nor did they feel that those services spoke to their lives and preoccupations (Adogame 2009).…”
Section: Born-again Christians: a Moral Community Of Belongingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Their founding reflects the postmigration conversion of many migrant Kenyans to Pentecostalism from the mission churches of their parents (Fesenmyer 2018). They did not find the Anglican, Catholic, and Methodist churches of their upbringings welcoming in London, nor did they feel that those services spoke to their lives and preoccupations (Adogame 2009).…”
Section: Born-again Christians: a Moral Community Of Belongingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the face of disappointment and disillusionment, a handful of Kenyan men, together with those who recognised their callings, began to establish Pentecostal churches during the 2000s (Fesenmyer 2018); the ‘turn’ to religion can be seen as both contributing to and reflecting a resurgence of religion globally (Kepel 1994). By 2014 there were 17 Kenyan‐initiated Pentecostal churches in Greater London, with more than half located in East London.…”
Section: Becoming Pentecostalmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Religious ideologies and ideas – like other forms of knowledge – do not fully determine subjectivities (Liberatore 2017). They are also ‘discursively produced’ (Asad 1986), and often through transnational discourse (Deeb 2009: 13), in conversation with local competing political ideologies (Hefner 2000; Iqtidar 2012), and class hierarchies (Maqsood 2017), as well as wider social and economic changes (Soares 2006; Osella and Osella 2009, 2012; Meyer 1999; Marshall 2009; Cole 2010; Daswani 2015; Strhan 2015; Fesenmyer 2016, 2018). This inevitably means a ‘borrowing’ across other religions and ideologies, the flows and contours of which can only be explored through greater comparative work.…”
Section: The Anthropologies Of Islam and Christianity: The Making Of mentioning
confidence: 99%