Evangelical Gypsies in Spain

Manuela Cantón-Delgado, who led the research team that produced this work,is currently a professor in the department of social anthropology at the University of Seville, Spain. Daniel L. Smith-Christopher led the translation project and edited the English. He is professor of Old Testament at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.

• ProloguesPrologue to the Spanish Edition (2004), Dr. Teresa San Roman…………….Author’s Prologue to the Spanish Edition (2004)…………………………….Editor’s Prologue to the English Edition (2019)……………………………..Acknowledgments…………………………………………………………………..Chapters1.Lower Andalusia Gypsies: Margins, Stigmas and History2.The Origins of Gypsy Protestantism 3.The Philadelphia Evangelical Church: Formal Aspects, Representations, and Practices4.Catholic and Protestant Gypsies in Jerez de la Frontera: An exchange of glances 5.“These Gypsies have become Priests?”: A Polyphonic History of The First Conversions of Andalusian Gypsies6.The God of the Markets: Gypsy Evangelism and Itinerant Commerce7.Detoxification Centers and Healing Practices8.Methodological Processes: Ethnography9.Theoretical Digression: Contemporary Secularization and Emerging Religions10.Conclusions to the Spanish Edition (2004)11.Almost Fifteen Years Later…(2019)Afterword of a Gypsy Pastor………………………………… Bibliography…………………………………………………..About the Contributors

The big questions about the emerging field of world Christianity are explored in this study of a trans-Andalusian ethnic group that sets in relief how evangelical and pentecostal-type converts are bringing their indigenous cultural traditions into late modernity.