CHRISTIANITY, STIGMA, AND MASS CONVERSION AMONG SPANISH GITANOS

世纪以来，五旬节派和超凡魅力运动改变了欧洲和其他地区罗姆少数民族的宗教格局。罗姆人的精神觉醒和大规模皈依福音派五旬节派基督教已证明是重大社会变革的源泉。这在西班牙尤其如此，西班牙罗姆福音派教会对吉塔诺人的社会和精神生活有很大影响（Cantón Delgado 2010; Gay y Blasco 1999; Griera 2013; Montañés Jiménez 2016）。大多数西班牙罗姆人-被称为Gitanos -信徒隶属于一个自治的Gitano领导的教会：Iglesia Evangélica de Filadelfia（IEF）。拟议的项目旨在建立在多个获奖的民族志博士研究，研究IEF的出现，以及五旬节基督教如何重塑世界观，价值观和西班牙吉塔诺人之间的宗教信仰。通过研究如何西班牙吉塔诺社区从事五旬节，我提供了一个透镜，通过它来理解在当代西班牙的宗教和种族（布鲁斯1996）的交织，并提高我们的理解在南欧社会少数民族之间的非天主教形式的基督教的影响。在这里，该项目探讨了一些经典的人类学主题（宗教，组织，公民身份）以及关于罗姆人在欧洲社会中被排斥的持续性的政治辩论。我的研究对社会科学研究的几个领域做出了贡献，特别是宗教社会学，基督教人类学和罗姆人研究。我的奖学金的主办部门是圣安德鲁斯大学的社会人类学系，这是英国著名的人类学研究单位。我的奖学金将链接到少数民族研究中心（CMR）。CMR是英国第一个也是唯一一个专门处理少数民族问题的学术中心，它与欧洲其他主要研究中心有着密切的联系。该项目旨在广泛传播研究结果，并在我的专业领域产生宝贵的影响。它将为学术界提供高质量的工作，以扩大关于罗姆人五旬节信仰的奖学金。该项目将探讨居住在当代社会郊区的社会少数群体如何参与新教基督教的新形式，并期待推进关于宗教在世俗和政治秩序中的作用的对话。它还将促进正在出现的关于宗教在多样化和多文化社会中促进社会凝聚力方面的作用的辩论。作为该项目的一项重要成果，我将与资深学者一起举办一个国际研讨会，探讨少数族裔在大流行时期在现代资本主义社会中所遭受的耻辱、隔离经历和社会斗争。今后，候选人的目标是出版一本汇集讲习班上提出的论文的编辑卷/特刊。此外，我将在圣安德鲁斯大学少数群体研究中心的框架内组织公共活动，将专家和社会及宗教领袖聚集在一起，就少数民族在政治和宗教上受到排斥的问题进一步开展辩论和联合倡议。该项目将通过参加由美国人类学协会和欧洲社会人类学家协会在2021年举办的两个主要国际会议而获得知名度。2022学年。该项目将有助于通过在圣安德鲁斯大学的次级荣誉模块中领导罗姆社区和五旬节主义部分来积累我的教学经验，并将能够塑造未来博士后研究项目，研究大流行时期宗教的表现以及大流行对宗教表现的影响及其后果

For over half a century, Pentecostal and charismatic movements have transformed Roma ethnic minorities' religious landscape in Europe and beyond. Roma spiritual awakenings and mass conversion to Evangelical Pentecostal Christianity have proved to be sources of significant social change. This is particularly true in Spain, where Spanish Roma Evangelical churches hold great sway Gitanos'social and spiritual life (Cantón Delgado 2010; Gay y Blasco 1999; Griera 2013; Montañés Jiménez 2016). Most Spanish Roma -known as Gitanos - believers affiliate with an autonomous Gitano-led church: the Iglesia Evangélica de Filadelfia (IEF). The proposed project aims to build upon a multi-award-winning ethnographic PhD research that examined the IEF's emergence and how Pentecostal Christianity has reshaped worldviews, values, and imaginaries among Gitanos in Spain. By examining how Spanish Gitano communities engage with Pentecostalism, I provide a lens through which to comprehend the intertwining of religion and ethnicity (Bruce 1996) in contemporary Spain and enhance our understanding of the influence of non-Catholic forms of Christianity among social minorities in southern Europe. Here, the project explores some classic anthropological themes (religion, organisations, citizenship) as well as political debates about the persistence of Roma exclusion in European societies. My research contributes to several fields of social scientific inquiry, especially the Sociology of Religion, the Anthropology of Christianity, and Romani Studies.The host Department of my fellowship is the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St. Andrews, a prestigious anthropological research unit in the UK. My fellowship will link to The Centre for Minorities Research (CMR). The CMR is the first and only academic hub in the UK to deal exclusively with minorities, and it is strongly connected to other major European research centres specialised in this theme. The project seeks to widely disseminate findings and make a valuable impact in my area of expertise. It will produce high-quality work for an academic audience to expand the scholarship on Roma Pentecostalism. The project will explore how social minorities inhabiting the outskirts of contemporary societies engage with novel forms of protestant Christianity and look to advance conversations regarding the role of religion in secular and political orders. It will also contribute to emerging debates regarding the role of religion in endergendering social cohesion within diverse and multicultural societies. As a critical outcome of the project, I will set up an international workshop with senior academics on the stigma, experiences of segregation and social struggles endured by ethnic minorities in modern capitalist societies during pandemic times. In the future, the candidate aim to publish an edited volume/special issue gathering the papers presented at the workshop. Additionally, I will organise public events within the framework of the Centre for Minorities research at The University of St. Andrews to bring together experts and social and religious leaders to further debates and joint initiatives regarding the political and religious exclusion of ethnic minorities. The project will gain visibility by participating in two major international conferences organised by the American Anthropological Association and the European Association of Social Anthropologists in the 2021/2022 academic year.The project will serve to build up my teaching experience by leading sections on Roma communities and Pentecostalism on subhonors modules at The University of St. Andrews and will enable the shaping of a future postdoctoral research project examining the performance of religion in pandemic times and the impact of the pandemic on the performance of religion and its after affects