Essays about: "Marco Tenti"

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  1. 1. “It’s like my blood, like my oxygen” : Life in a Kimbanguist community in Stockholm

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Marco Tenti; [2023]
    Keywords : Kimbanguism – Community – Religion – Transnationalism - Ritual;

    Abstract : The aim of this work is to discuss the religious life of the Kimbanguist community in Stockholm; more specifically, it analyses the ways in which religion (in particular Kimbanguism) allows the members of a small religious community, originated by migration, to maintain sense of belonging and to give meaning to their experiences. In order to do this, I focus on the concept of community to define the ways in which a group of people, embedded in a much wider social field, can be defined with this analytical term: community emerges as a social group whose members share a specific inventory of symbols; symbols include representations and narratives, but also practices, artifacts and images. READ MORE