The Spirit Is within Us! Ritual Practices of Latin American Pentecostals in Barcelona
Muñoz, Wilson (Universidad de Tarapacá. Faculty of Education and Humanities)
Fernández Mostaza, Esther (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Sociologia)
Soto Lara, José Julián (Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins. Center for Historical Studies)

Data:	2022
Resum:	In recent years, Christian Pentecostalism has been one of the most successful religious movements in the province of Barcelona, while the high level of immigration from Latin America has clearly been an influential factor in its development. Yet, despite the fact that Pentecostalism has played a prominent role in religious diversification in Catalonia, it has been the subject of very few studies. This paper seeks to address this gap in research and shed light on an area of fundamental importance to the movement: its ritual dimension. Drawing on ethnographic information from the Iglesia Evangélica el Vallès (Canovelles), we describe and analyze the principal channels of communication with the sacred established by the Latin American Pentecostals. In our conclusions, we show that the communicative practices developed during worship are oriented toward manifesting the presence of the Holy Spirit, leading to the emergence of ritual condensation around this symbolic force. For this purpose, practices such as "praise", the "laying on of hands" and "speaking in tongues" establish sequential and progressive communication with the Holy Spirit throughout the process of worship, culminating in mimetic communication.
Nota:	Wilson Muñoz-Henríquez obtained funding by the UNESCO/Japan Young Researchers' Fellowship Programme, UNESCO-France and the Government of Japan, and the scholarship program Becas Chile N◦ 72150364, ANID-Chile.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Latin American Pentecostalism ; Communication ; Ritual
Publicat a:	Religions, Vol. 13 Núm. 6 (2022) , p. 501, ISSN 2077-1444

DOI: 10.3390/rel13060501

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