Open AccessBlessed by the Lord: A Visual Portrait of a Jumli Pentecostal Congregation
Author(s) -
Samuele Poletti
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
himalaya
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 2471-3716
pISSN - 1935-2212
DOI - 10.2218/himalaya.2021.6578
Subject(s) - nature versus nurture , hinduism , portrait , narrative , power (physics) , new testament , history , rest (music) , religious studies , literature , aesthetics , sociology , art , philosophy , art history , anthropology , medicine , physics , quantum mechanics , cardiology
Many Christian converts in the Sinja Valley of Jumla, northwest Nepal, reveal that they have been struck by the Bible because it referenced real events, especially miraculous cases of healing. These miraculous events provide tangible ‘evidence’ of God’s power that somewhat replicate the expectations that people nurture with respect to the Hindu deities. In such way, miracles play an especially crucial role in supporting the conversion of women and youngsters living in large families, who, partaking as veritable protagonists in Biblical events, are turned into the as quintessentially Christian subjects of a conversion narrative that helps substantiating their radical decision vis-à-vis the rest of their family.