TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robert Calvert
PY  - 2019
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631804070
TI  - Pilgrims in the Port
T2  - The Identity of Migrant Christian Communities in Rotterdam
DO  - 10.3726/b16225
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1110895
N2  - 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.
KW  - international churches, migrant Christian communities, identity, integration, igrant churches
LA  - English
ER  -