Abstract

BLANES, Ruy Llera. Contact, knowledge and conflict: Social and cultual dynamics in an evangelical gypsy movement in the Iberian Peninsula. Etnográfica [online]. 2007, vol.11, n.1, pp.29-54. ISSN 0873-6561.

This article proposes an analysis of the evangelical cults of the Filadelfia Church - a Christian Protestant movement created among Portuguese and Spanish Gypsy communities. In order to attempt an understanding of the role played by ritual praxis within religious and identitary experience, I propose the notions of "contact", "knowledge" and "conflict" as explanatory devices for the local and social implantation of the cults within Gypsy contemporariness, connecting ideology, memory and practices.

Keywords : Gypsies; evangelical cult; ritual; religious language; contact; Iberian Peninsula.

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