Articles with the keyword Chile

• Martin Lindhardt

  Narrating Religious Realities: Conversion and testimonies in Chilean Pentecostalism

  Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society Volume 34(3) 2009: 25-43

  Abstract

  In this paper I explore the complex and constitutive role of narrative practice in
  Chilean Pentecostalism. I argue that it is in large part through different kinds of
  storytelling that Pentecostal self identities are produced, nourished and modified.
  Particular attention is focused on testimonies of salvation, and life stories as
  narrative practices through which converts engage in ongoing construction of
  biographic identities and provide themselves with symbolic schemes for present
  and future action. I further argue that Pentecostal story telling should be seen as
  a specific kind of social interaction, creating and unfolding religious realities to
  be inhabited by narrator and listener alike. I pursue this argument by examining
  different linguistic as well as non-linguistic strategies through which the listener
  is invited to project him or herself into the world of the story.

  Keywords Chile, conversion, identity, narratives, Pentecostalism