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Enacted Destiny: West African Charismatic Christians in Berlin and the Immanence of God
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Abstract "The focus of this article is the concept of enacted destiny, which was identified among charismatic Christians of West African origin in Berlin. Different from more fatalistic concepts of destiny, it combines a strong notion of free agency with a strong notion of a good, almighty, and immanent God.... view more
"The focus of this article is the concept of enacted destiny, which was identified among charismatic Christians of West African origin in Berlin. Different from more fatalistic concepts of destiny, it combines a strong notion of free agency with a strong notion of a good, almighty, and immanent God. The imaginary of enacted destiny is constituted by two components: 1. presituational religious empowerment by which charismatic Christians can reduce complexities, anxieties, and insecurities in the context of decision making; and 2. postsituational sense-making by which divine agency is ascribed to an originally ambiguous situation. Both components temporally embrace the actions of West African charismatic Christians in Berlin. Actions thereby become the means through which God becomes immanent in the everyday lives of West African charismatic Christians in Berlin and enacted destiny a category of movement toward convergence of human and divine agency." [author's abstract]... view less
Keywords
Calvinism; well-being; empowerment; religious group; Federal Republic of Germany; West Africa; Christian; spirituality; migrant; diaspora; identity; religiousness; freedom of will; god; Protestantism; Christianity; Berlin
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Sociology of Religion
Method
empirical
Document language
English
Publication Year
2010
Page/Pages
p. 33-59
Journal
Journal of Religion in Africa, 40 (2010) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1163/002242010X12580044312982
ISSN
1570-0666
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications
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