Article Title：Protestant beliefs, gypsies strategies.: Evangelism in the Philadelphia churches in southern Spain
Abstract：
Since four decades, the conversions of gypsies to evangelical Protestantism are the most important religious, social and political movement in the complex history of this people. This article approaches gypsy Pentecostalism of the Philadelphia Churches starting from its ethnographical and historical context, to focus on the representation of two crossed narratives which describe the beginning of the first gypsy evangelical church Andalusia. This first evangelical community was formed in a marginal district of Sevilla city. These religious meetings were started by two French preachers that propagated the new born-again religion among the Andalusian gypsies. Furthermore, this article developed some ideas about the social and political uses of the gypsy conversion to Pentecostalism in the ethnographical context of our fieldwork, developed in Sevilla and Cadiz.
Keywords: pentecostal religion; gypsies; narratives; political processes
DOI: 10.3989/rdtp.2003.v58.i2.155
Source：REVISTA DE DIALECTOLOGIA Y TRADICIONES POPULARES
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