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Around the globe, migrant communities are being established in modern, Western societies where they are creating new, vital Pentecostal churches, worship groups, and religious communities. Among other locations, this mainly cosmopolitan movement is visible in the Norden part of Europe, dramatically changing the religious landscape of formerly more homogenous societies.

This book analyzes this global phenomenon from different disciplinary perspectives, with the Swedish capital Stockholm as an example. The analysis builds on extensive field-work in one Arabic, one African, and one Latin American Pentecostal church in Stockholm. A demographic mapping of the rise of International Pentecostal churches and other migrant churches in Sweden is also included. New knowledge about these ongoing transformations of the religious landscape in urban Sweden, gives perspectives on the global cosmopolitan religious change.

Published: Oct 1, 2025

Book Contributors

• Editor - Victoria Enkvist ([email protected] - venkvist) 'Uppsala University'
• Editor - Katarina Westerlund ([email protected] - kwesterlund) 'Uppsala University'
• Author - Allan H. Anderson ([email protected] - aanderson) 'University of Birmingham'
• Author - Simon Coleman ([email protected] - scoleman) 'University of Toronto'
• Author - Pamela Slotte Russo ([email protected] - pslotte) 'Helsinki University'
• Author - Magdalena Nordin ([email protected] - mnordin) 'University of Gothenburg'
• Author - Émir Mahieddin ([email protected] - emahieddin) 'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris'
• Author - Anders Bäckström ([email protected] - abacktrom) 'Uppsala University'
• Author - Grace Davie ([email protected] - gracedavie) 'University of Exeter'
• Author - Kim Knott ([email protected] - kimknott) 'Lancaster University'
• Author - Torbjorn Aronson ([email protected] - taronson2114) 'Uppsala University'

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Section	Chapter	Authors
Foreword
	Foreword	Grace Davie
Chapter 1
	International Pentecostalism in Sweden - Researching a New Cosmopolitan Landscape	Victoria Enkvist, Katarina Westerlund
Chapter 2
	Desecularization of Stockholm? Changes in Numbers of Churches and International Pentecostalism 1980–2020	Magdalena Nordin, Torbjörn Aronson
Chapter 3
	Ecclesiology with Unintended Consequences: Pingströrelsen and the Integration of International Pentecostal Churches in Stockholm 1980–2020	Torbjörn Aronson
Chapter 4
	“Living Theology” – Everyday Life, Challenges and Resources among International Pentecostals in Stockholm	Katarina Westerlund
Chapter 5
	Suburbia and the Subway: Pentecostalism and Migration in Stockholm	Émir Mahieddin
Chapter 6
	Legal Regulation of Religious Minorities in Sweden – The Example of International Pentecostals	Victoria Enkvist
Chapter 7
	International Pentecostals in Metropolitan Stockholm – Rethinking Relations between Voluntary and State Religion in Urban Sweden	Anders Bäckström
Chapter 8
	Broadening the Perspectives – An International Outlook	Allan Anderson, Simon Coleman, Kim Knott, Pamela Slotte Russo

Reviews

I am more than pleased to recommend this volume, which looks in detail at three groups of Pentecostal Christians who have settled in the Stockholm area. The book concludes with a series of interesting reflections from Pentecostal scholars from different parts of the world.
From the Foreword by Grace Davie, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Exeter