Abstract
Since 1970 the number of African immigrants entering Canada on a yearly basis has increased dramatically. These migrants are part of what has been described as the new African diaspora. Often settling in metropolitan centers, such as Calgary, Alberta, this new diaspora has steadily become a conspicuous and important element of Canada’s societal landscape. At the same time, Pentecostal Christianity has experienced an explosion of growth throughout Latin America, Asia, and Africa. In association with this growth, members of the diaspora have readily established African Pentecostal churches abroad, such as Calgary’s All Peoples Cross Community. This chapter considers the nuances of the term diaspora, and introduces how APCC’s congregants claim that Pentecostalism performs crucial functions for members of an immigrant community.
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Aechtner, T. (2015). Now We Are Coming: Global Pentecostalism and the New African Diaspora. In: Health, Wealth, and Power in an African Diaspora Church in Canada. Religion and Global Migrations. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137485496_1
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