Jesus for Zanzibar: Narratives of Pentecostal (Non-)Belonging, Islam, and Nation

Hans Göran Olsson

doi:10.1163/9789004410367

Jesus for Zanzibar: Narratives of Pentecostal (Non-)Belonging, Islam, and Nation

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In Jesus for Zanzibar: Narratives of Pentecostal (Non-)Belonging, Islam, and Nation Hans Olsson offers an ethnographic account of the lived experience and socio-political significance of newly arriving Pentecostal Christians in the Muslim majority setting of Zanzibar. This work analyzes how a disputed political partnership between Zanzibar and Mainland Tanzania intersects with the construction of religious identities.

Undertaken at a time of political tensions, the case study of Zanzibar’s largest Pentecostal church, the City Christian Center, outlines religious belonging as relationally filtered in-between experiences of social insecurity, altered minority / majority positions, and spiritual powers. Hans Olsson shows that Pentecostal Christianity, as a signifier of (un)wanted social change, exemplifies contested processes of becoming in Zanzibar that capitalizes on, and creates meaning out of, religious difference and ambient political tensions.

Original language	English

Place of Publication	Leiden
Publisher	Brill
Number of pages	291
ISBN (Print)	978-90-04-40681-0
ISBN (Electronic)	978-90-04-41036-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004410367
Publication status	Published - 2019

Series	Studies of Religion in Africa
Volume	48
ISSN	0169-9814

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