Pilgrims in the Port: The Identity of Migrant Christian Communities in Rotterdam

by Robert Calvert, Martha Frederiks (Editor)

Overview

This publication investigates new ways of understanding international churches. Based upon recent fieldwork, six migrant Christian communities in Rotterdam were analysed using congregational study methods on how they construct identity. Through the frames of ‘koinonia’, ‘diakonia’ and ‘kerygma’, this research reflects on their composition, characteristics, leadership style, language and social capital. Language is found to be an important shaper or ‘carrier’ of identity and acts both as badge and bridge of identity. In building identity, MCCs do not behave in ways expected or consistent with the process of integration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631782637
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	12/17/2019
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Robert Alasdair Calvert pastored three city congregations in Glasgow, Rotterdam and Dundee as a Church of Scotland minister. His researches on migrant Christian communities and lectures on urban ministry.

Table of Contents

Rotterdam – migration studies – group identity – koinonia – kerygma – leadership – diakonia – social activities