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The Second Coming, Successful Life, and the Sweetness of Guinea:

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The Second Coming, Successful Life, and the Sweetness of Guinea:

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Evangelical Thoughts about the Future in Guinea-Bissau

Ambra Formenti

Leiden

Brill

Hope, aspirations, and drive to the future have recently been the focus of academic concern about the ways in which people are thinking and producing their future in a time of great uncertainty. By exploring the distinct ways in which evangelical believers in Guinea-Bissau are engaged in imagining their future, this article aims to portray evangelical Christianity as a source of aspirations and visions of possible futures in contemporary Africa. Moreover, by comparing the programme of cultural and social regeneration pursued by nationalists in the 1960s and '70s and the current evangelical project of personal and collective redemption, I argue that evangelical churches are promoting a politics of hope that translates Amílcar Cabral's legacy in their own terms. Finally, I show how, in the wake of the failure of nationalist narratives, evangelical churches are fostering an emerging conceptualization of modernity as connectivity that underlies new dreams of a better future.

2017

346-379

Journal of Religion in Africa

47/3-4

1570-0666

African Studies

Anthropology of Religion

aspirations

Comparative Religion & Religious Studies

evangelical Christianity

Guinea-Bissau

History of Religion

hope

Middle East and Islamic Studies

modernity

Religion

Religious Studies

the future

Ambra Formenti

10.1163/15700666-12340112

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