From Pentecost to 'inner healing': religious change and Pentecostal developments in the post-socialist Lithuanian Catholic milieu
Matulevicius, Saulius (2015)
Matulevicius, Saulius
The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi
2015
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Saulius Matulevicius, Vytautas Magnus University.
Saulius Matulevicius is a PhD student at the University of Vytautas Magnus, Sociology department. He studies Pentecostal Christianity and its vernacular developments. His field of interest in anthropology covers religion, secularisation, secularist politics and the post-secular, death and mourning, also media and organisational anthropology. He also is a lecturer at the ISM University of Management and Economics and Vytautas Magnus University.
Saulius Matulevicius is a PhD student at the University of Vytautas Magnus, Sociology department. He studies Pentecostal Christianity and its vernacular developments. His field of interest in anthropology covers religion, secularisation, secularist politics and the post-secular, death and mourning, also media and organisational anthropology. He also is a lecturer at the ISM University of Management and Economics and Vytautas Magnus University.
Tiivistelmä
In this article the author describes the religious change that took place in the Catholic milieu of post-Soviet Lithuania. Following the arrival of global Pentecostal trends to the country a Catholic form of Pentecostalism, known as Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR) also arrived. The author describes what changes the CCR brought and how the Pentecostal developments paved the way for this other movement to emerge. Dynamic developments of the CCR unexpectedly took a turn towards the discourse and practice of healing, which triggered the emergence of another movement, known as the Inner Healing Movement (IHM). Being inseparable from its Pentecostal roots the movement, nevertheless, has become a vernacular, specifically Catholic, practice which no longer seeks for the signs of Pentecostal authenticity but redefines the Pentecostal message, directing it towards healing discourses and practices.