O identitate confesională între dificultăți și provocări. Penticostalii români în secolul XX
A Confessional Identity between Difficulties and Challenges. Romanian Pentecostals in the 20th Century

Summary/Abstract: My research area focuses on a niche subject. I study the Pentecostal community in the Cluj area. The goal is not a reconstruction of the history of the Pentecostal community, nor a presentation for the majorities. These approaches are often found in the historiography of the subject, it is either an attempted to faithfully reconstruct its genesis, multiplication and spread of Pentecostals, or to explain in detail the peculiarities of the community that differentiate it from other religious minorities or from the majority of traditional cults. Through this paper I aim to contribute to this research with a balanced approach of the community’s history, to capture its particularities that do not fit into a formal history, bounded by events, with deep points of identity shaping, at the same time trying to stay clear of a cold, distant examination, a stiff analysis. Throughout the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, the Pentecostal community went through various challenges. Being a minority community, these challenges came from within but especially from the outside, nevertheless they helped shape a profile for the Pentecostals. The present paper proposes an analysis of the Romanian Pentecostal’s condition through its own accounts, outlining an identity map of the Romanian Pentecostal that goes through the main stages of life.

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