The French national motto is Freedom, Equality, Fraternity.
Will the current French government remember its first word, "Freedom"?
As it is heading toward a new law targeting "separatism", concerns rise.
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Evangelicals in the word: around 665 million (2021)
Evangelical Protestants are approximately 665 million in the world at the beginning of the year 2021, according to this annual global statistical overview I am glad to share with you.
This release also gives the opportunity to highlight some of recent published research. Books have been slightly less numerous in 2020 ("Covid19 effect" was felt on the the last semester).
The data in PDF are available here (link) and they are presented in video below via Youtube.
This one is in french but I'd love some day to do one in english. To be followed....
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French Baptist Bicentenary
Did you know that there were Baptist churches in France before Baptist churches started in Texas ?Baptist beginnings trace back to 1820, with several Believer's baptisms in Nomain (North of France). One year after (1821), the first French Baptist congregation started in Aix, a very small village near Nomain.
Due to the current pandemia, French Baptists could not really mark this 200th Anniversary properly. However, this French Baptist bicentenary remains a significant step towards a more diverse French religious landscape.
As I did study this particular French Baptist history for my Ph.D (defended in Sorbonne EPHE in 1998), I've decided to review (and improve) an old Powerpoint presentation which explains the four steps of French Baptist implantation, from 1800s to 1950s.
Although this presentation is in french, the many pictures and sources may be of some interest to English-speaking lovers of Protestant History.
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Evangelicals in Brazil and in USA : a comparative study
Debates do NER is a Brazilian biannual journal, created in 1997 on the initiative of the Center for the Study of Religion (NER), of the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).Debates do NER is currently one of the most important vehicles for disseminating research related to the Social Sciences of Religion in Mercosur. Thanks to my Brazilian colleagues Marcelo Camurça and Emerson Giumbelli, whom I warmly thank, I had the opportunity to publish in 2020 a comparative historical study on Evangelicalism, USA vs Brazil.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR !
