Annalisa Butticci is Marie Curie Fellow at Harvard Divinity School and Utrecht University.
Excellent and highly readable… The different sides have surprising
commonalities, and it is in this area that the book makes its
greatest contribution to the literature on migrant religion.
*Books & Culture*
In an era of intensified mobility, when the spiritual landscape in
Europe seems beset by a friction of faiths, Butticci’s
scintillating, innovative book reveals a less-noted dynamic: the
expansion of contact zones, in which seemingly different
denominations rub up against one another, to discover unexpected
resonances—including the surprisingly similar ways in which
Catholics and Pentecostals in Italy work to make real the presence
of divine power in the lives of believers. The result is a study of
unusual insight, humanity, and imagination.
*Jean Comaroff, Harvard University*
This is a marvelous ethnography of the contact zone in which
African Pentecostals engage with Italian Catholics. Offering deep
insight into both Pentecostal and Catholic aesthetic regimes,
Annalisa Butticci magisterially unpacks their clashes and
unexpected convergences with regard to relics, images, and
religious sensations. The result is a thoroughly grounded, highly
innovative theoretical intervention that spotlights the power of a
political-aesthetic approach in capturing the evocation of ‘real
presence’ via competing registers.
*Birgit Meyer, Utrecht University*
Butticci’s African Pentecostals in Catholic Europe: The Politics of
Presence in the Twenty-First Century is a fascinating exploration
of the at-times endearing and at others deeply troubling encounter
of contemporary practitioners of divergent faiths, one hosting
newcomer migrants and creating in that bond of hospitality a kind
of bridge to European society.
*EuropeNow*
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