Jesus for Zanzibar: Narratives of Pentecostal (Non-)Belonging, Islam, and Nation

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Jesus for Zanzibar: Narratives of Pentecostal (Non-)Belonging, Islam, and Nation is written by Hans Olsson and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004410368 (ISBN 10) and 9789004410367 (ISBN 13).

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.