„Bez Ducha svatého nemůže být ani křesťanství, jen víra v tradici.“
“Without the Holy Spirit, There Can Be No Christianity, Only Faith in Tradition.”

An Ethnographic Study of Pentecostal and Neo-charismatic Communities in Contemporary Czech Republic

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the Pentecostal and Charismatic movementsas part of Evangelical Christianity in contemporary Czech Republic. The textis a resumé of ethnographic research conducted in two Czech PentecostalChurches – the Apostolic Church in Prague and the Christian FellowshipChurch. In these communities, certain aspects of Pentecostal church life wereobserved using the participant observation method, as well as interviewswith informants. The aim of the research was to focus on how these believersunderstand Pentecostal religiosity, and where we can see some crucial aspectsof this kind of religiosity within church activities. I try to explain why thehome groups and community prayer are more important for my informantsthan large-scale impersonal activities. Further attention was focused on thepreferred forms of evangelization. I want to demonstrate the shift from massevangelization in the 1990s to the current personal form of evangelization,based on deep personal relationships with unbelievers.

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