TY  - BOOK
AU  - Olsson,Hans
TI  - Jesus for Zanzibar: Narratives of Pentecostal (non-)belonging, Islam, and nation 
SN  - 9789004406810
AV  - BX8765.5.Z7 OLS Z36 2019
U1  - BX8765.5.Z7 OLS 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Brill
KW  - City Christian Center (Zanzibar)
KW  - Christianity and other religions
KW  - Islam
KW  - Relations
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Tanzania
KW  - Religion
KW  - Zanzibar
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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"--
ER  -