Immigrant Christianities

Over the past two decades, Romanian immigration to the Italian Peninsula has grown to nearly a quarter of the country's foreign population, making it the largest Romanian diaspora in the world. This volume is the first to examine the religious dimension of this vast migratory phenomenon from multiple perspectives, including sociology, anthropology, ethnology, history, and theology.
The chapters study the patterns and transformations of Romanian Churches and Christian movements in Italy, with particular attention to the Romanian Orthodox Church, the Romanian Roman Catholic Church, the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church, and the Romanian Pentecostal Church. They also analyze how these immigrant Churches and religious movements engage with Italian society and respond to contemporary challenges.
Drawing on the study of the Romanian diaspora and grounded in a multidisciplinary perspective, this volume develops the notion of immigrant Christianities. The latter provides a heuristic framework for highlighting the growing entanglements and transformative dynamics shaping the multiplicity of immigrant Churches and Christian movements in the contemporary world.

Examines the settlement of Churches and Christian movements within the largest Romanian diaspora in the world Explores the pluralization and transformation of Christianity in the Italian Peninsula driven by religious migration Develops the notion of immigrant Christianities to grasp current dynamics of Churches and Christian movements abroad

Autorentext

Marco Guglielmi is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education, and Applied Psychology at University of Padova, Italy.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 Introduction: Shaping Immigrant Christianities from Romania to Italy.- Part 1. Immigrant Christianities' Settlement and Organizational Transformations.- Chapter 2 Charting the Romanian Immigrant Churches and Christian Movements in Italy.- Chapter 3 Exploring the Spatial Dynamics of Romanian Orthodox Church Places of Worship in Italy: Toward a New Religious Heritage.- Chapter 4 Catholic Churches in a 'Suitcase' from Romania to Italy.- Chapter 5 Cosmic Christianism: Romanian Immigrants and Cultural Layers of Their Religious System.- Chapter 6 Perspectives of a Romanian Orthodox Theology in the Diaspora.- Part 2. Immigrant Christianities' Approaches to Contemporary Challenges.- Chapter 7 Romanian Pentecostal Immigrants in Italy: Between Adaptations and Innovations.- Chapter 8 Exploring Religion and Migration Spatially in the Alpine Area: The St Mark Romanian Orthodox Church in Trento.- Chapter 9 Young Romanians Grow Up between National and Religious Identity. News from Italy.- Chapter 10 The Orthodox Church's Role in Healing Human Dignity in the Context of Migration: Examining the Case of the Romanian Diaspora in Italy.