Research on Pentecostalism in Sweden
Alvarsson, Jan-Åke B. (2015)
Alvarsson, Jan-Åke B.
The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi
2015
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Jan-Åke B. Alvarsson, Uppsala University
Jan-Åke Alvarsson is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University. He has specialized in Amerindian religion and Pentecostalism, especially in Latin America and the Nordic countries. He has published several books on these subjects, the latest being Om Pingströrelsen… (Artos 2014).
Jan-Åke Alvarsson is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University. He has specialized in Amerindian religion and Pentecostalism, especially in Latin America and the Nordic countries. He has published several books on these subjects, the latest being Om Pingströrelsen… (Artos 2014).
Tiivistelmä
This article aims to orientate and introduce potential researchers into Swedish Pentecostal movements, or those who wish to provide an overview of Scandinavian Christianity, by giving a brief summary of the history of Pentecostalism in Sweden and an overview of the main academic monographs that have been produced on this particular branch of Christianity. The idea is to highlight areas where we find relevant research and to point to areas into which there has been little or no investigation. Following, by way of introduction, a brief historical sketch, there is a note on spirituality before we are given a review of some thirty major academic works on the subject that a potential researcher would need to take into consideration.