Traditional Churches, Born Again Christianity, and Pentecostalism

Yonatan N. Gez is a fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences and a research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Theoretical approaches to religious mobility.- 3. The Kenyan religious landscape.- 4. The unfolding of religious repertoires in Kenya: negotiating territory and questions of trust.- 5. The unfolding of religious repertoires in Kenya: Balancing repertoire arrangements.- 6. Religious identity as a system in action.- 7. Example interviewees.- 8. Conclusion.

“This tour de force in anthropology of religion is based on the author’s fieldwork. ... Thorough, copiously documented, and well- written, Gez’s work has implications for descriptive and constructive theologies that try to attend to grassroots beliefs, especially phenomenologies of African theology and global pentecostalism.” (Christopher A. Stephenson, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 47 (4), December, 2021)