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Table of Contents

Methodological reflections
Introduction
The UEM program for cooperation between German and foreign language churches, 1998-2008
Other European Protestant church responses to migrant churches : a short overview
Description of my research
Reflecting my own role as agent and researcher
Interpretative paradigms
The field of study
Terminology : "migrant churches"
Delimiting "Pentecostal/Charismatic"
Constructing a Pentecostal/Charismatic discourse field
Migrant churches : categorizations
Historical dynamics : foundation and development of migrant churches
Migrant churches as part of a globalized discourse network
The role of the pastor : the relationship to one's own congregation
The pastor as father and shepherd
The Shepherd : mediator between God and the congregation
The authority of the Shepherd
"To stay with God always" : the spiritual life of a Shepherd
Sacrificing oneself for the congregation and living as a role model
Becoming a Shepherd : call, training, ordination, and gifts of the spirit
Defending one's call : biographical stories as legitimation narratives
Call narratives in a Pentecostal/Charismatic context
No legitimation narrative : observations and possible reasons
Legitimation narratives I : called by a Prophetic Word
Legitimation narratives II : deciding for the ministry after a miracle experience
Legitimation narratives III : called by visions and dreams
Legitimation narratives IV : woman pastors
Mediators of divine power in a market situation : observations and analysis of the pastoral role
The market situation : undermining pastoral authority
Asserting pastoral authority
Growing into authority : calling and ordination
Mediators of divine power in a market situation
Following the call : expatriation narratives
Theoretical framework : some considerations
Intertwined call and expatriation narratives
Circular stories : how the call was realized after all
Oscillating narratives: how the call became clear over time
Called after expatriation
Struggling to understand call and expatriation
Intertwined call and expatriation narratives
Expatriation as consequence of the call
Independent charismatic missionaries : success stories
Missionaries sent by Pentecostal churches
Expatriation as consequence of the call
Pastoral call and expatriation not connected
V.K. : for me it was so wonderful to go to Germany
A.M., P.S., I.A. : asylum in Germany
Spiritual interpretation instead of expatriation narrative
Expatriation narratives : some final observations
Being on a mission : the relationship to the outside world
"What is your mission?" : observations from the short interviews
Missionary practice : evangelizing Germans
Street evangelism
Tracts
Gospel music
Other means
Conceptualizing evangelism in interdenominational dialogue : the long interviews
Locating oneself globally sent to the world
Describing one's message
Reflections on contextualization
Imagining Germany and Europe
Restoring a ruined church
"Bringing back" the Gospel
The German nation in the economy of salvation
Territorial spirits
Imagining Germany and Europe
Conceptualizing evangelism in the global Pentecostal/ Charismatic network : the spiritual warfare paradigm
Evangelism in the framework of spiritual warfare : the anglophone West African example
Evangelism in the framework of spiritual warfare : concretizations
Evangelism, inculturation, and clashing paradigms
Consequences
The current situation
Dialogue fields : a description
Ministerial authority
Immigration
Mission and evangelism
Ecclesiology and the politics of difference : who defines Christianity in Europe : the functional question does a missionary self-image further or hinder integration
The theological question are European churches ready to be evangelized.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Leiden, Boston
Series
Global Pentecostal and Charismatic studies -- v. 2

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Dewey Decimal Class
289.9/4094
Library of Congress
BV4406.G3 W34 2009, BV4406.G3W34 2009

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Pagination
p. cm.

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OL23056760M
Internet Archive
missionaryselfpe00whri
ISBN 13
9789004175082
LCCN
2009003873
OCLC/WorldCat
298188056
Goodreads
6081000

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