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This article concerns forms of millenarian Christianity found in both north Atlantic societies (Iceland, Faroes) and the south Atlantic (Cape Verde). These islands had different established religions, cultures and history and all became independent during the twentieth century. Within the independen...
| Published in: | Terrain |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | French |
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Association Terrain
2014
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.4000/terrain.15516 http://journals.openedition.org/terrain/15516 |
| Summary: | This article concerns forms of millenarian Christianity found in both north Atlantic societies (Iceland, Faroes) and the south Atlantic (Cape Verde). These islands had different established religions, cultures and history and all became independent during the twentieth century. Within the independence movements new religions had a major role by proposing various destinies after death or more immediate millenniums. These religious manifestations have been little studied by social science and, when they have, they have not been fully appreciated as phenomena for themselves but rather as simple examples of diffusions originating in Europe or America. These forms of Christianity, whether Adventist, Pentecostalist, Methodist, Calvinist or Lutheran, all reveal the distinct character of these indigenous social utopias. Having had to deal with impatience and too delayed expectations they manifest a distinctive relation to time which is concerned both with the perennial and the imminence of a prophesised end. Cet article propose un examen des christianismes millénaristes dans des sociétés de l’Atlantique Nord (Islande et Féroé) et Sud (Cap-Vert). De confessions, de cultures et d’histoires différentes, ces îles ont gagné leurs indépendances au cours du xxe siècle. Dans ces entreprises de libération, des fabriques religieuses ont joué localement des rôles majeurs en répondant à l’attente d’un destin eschatologique, et à celle d’un devenir souverain immédiat. Peu observés par les sciences sociales qui ne les ont pas appréhendés comme des appropriations autochtones mais comme des diffusions d’Amérique et d’Europe, ces christianismes (adventisme, pentecôtisme, méthodisme, calvinisme et luthéranisme) révèlent une autre histoire des utopies sociales indigènes. Contraints de gérer l’impatience et les attentes trop longues, ils témoignent en outre d’un rapport singulier au temps, entre le défi de la pérennité et l’imminence d’une fin annoncée. |
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