Evangelical Gypsies in Spain

The big questions about the emerging field of world Christianity are explored in this study of a trans-Andalusian ethnic group that sets in relief how evangelical and pentecostal-type converts are bringing their indigenous cultural traditions into late modernity. -- Amos Yong
This book will overturn most of what you think you know about Gypsies. Much of the Gypsy population of Spain now belongs to, or is influenced by, Pentecostal churches. Gypsies become Pentecostals, not to reject their culture and family structures, but to deal with new threats such as drug addiction and globalization. Cantón-Delgado does an excellent job of explaining how the Gypsies beliefs and practices have evolved to deal with changing times. -- David Stoll, Middlebury College, USA
This enduring study of the Filadelfia Church in Central and Southern Spain provides an irreplaceable record of the character of the major Calo-Gitano led Pentecostal denomination. Cantón-Delgado also dives headlong into the theoretical questions about the effect on the economy and society not only of Cale and Roma, but their non-Gypsy neighbors who are drawn into these Calo-led congregations. This text is an indispensable building block in both Romani studies and Pentecostal revivalism. -- Thomas Acton, University of Greenwich, UK
There is a plot twist in recent Spanish religious history. Spanish Gypsies were, until the last quarter of the twentieth century, something less than an ethnic minority. Then, they converted to Pentecostal evangelism, becoming something more than a religious minority: a challenge to Catholic uniformity, to secularization, and to time-worn clichés. -- Óscar Calavia Sáez, École Pratique des Hautes Études, París (Francia)