Reconnecting People and Healing the Land: Inuit Pentecostal and Evangelical Movements in the Canadian Eastern Arctic
Authors: Laugrand, Frédéric1; Oosten, Jarich2
Source: Numen, Volume 54, Number 3, 2007 , pp. 229-269(41)
Publisher: BRILL
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Abstract:
In this paper we focus on Pentecostal and Evangelical movements in Nunavik and Nunavut. Although these movements are quite modern, they combine old and new features in a variety of ways. First we present a brief overview of the most important movements and their history. Then we examine in more detail recent developments, notably the case of the healing the land rituals developed by the Canada Awakening Ministries with the collaboration of a group from Fiji. Finally we discuss some of the basic patterns characterizing these new Christian movements and explore to what extent structural patterns can be discerned in these movements. They claim to introduce discontinuity with the past as well as new forms of solidarity integrating modern ideologies in a Christian perspective, but we will see that the relation to land as well as connections to shamanism remain central issues in modern Inuit discourses and practices of Pentecostalism.Keywords: INUIT; PENTECOSTAL; EVANGELICAL; HEALING; LAND; RITUALS; RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS
Document Type: Research article
DOI: 10.1163/156852707X211555
Affiliations: 1: Département d'anthropologie, Université Laval, Ste-Foy, G1K 7P4, Québec, Canada;, Email: frederic.laugrand@ant.ulaval.ca 2: Department of Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK Leiden, The Netherlands;, Email: jarich@gmail.com
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