Pentecôtisation du christianisme et butinage religieux au Kenya: entre fondamentalisme et mode populaire d’action politico-religieuse

Abstract

The Pentecostalisation of Christian denominations – religious butinage– is, in Kenya at least, in conflict with everyday religious practices. Such “looting” activities, or their absence, indicate the power of radicalisation among people of faith. This argument is strengthened by the fact that Pentecostalism, conversion to which is considered a personal decision marked by a “born-again” experience, does not constitute a homogeneous movement. We shall see that this religious mobility indicates a kind of Ecumenism-in-action, a grassroots trend towards politico-religious action in opposition to a religious tribalism that is not popular at all in Kenya. This article therefore intends to demonstrate a moral religiosity in religious mobility, whether it occurs on a daily basis or throughout the life history of the authors’ informants. The diversity of religious practices would thus preclude the manipulation of religion that some political elites envisage.

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