Studying Ukrainian Evangelical Communities in Poland Through Missionary Biographical Narratives
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https://doi.org/10.15633/tes.08101Keywords:
evangelical Christianity, Ukraine, Poland, missionaries, migrants, biographical narrativesAbstract
By focusing on missionary narratives, the article offers a short description of the Ukrainian evangelical communities that have developed in Poland since 2014. Arguing that the outbreak of the war in Donbass was a decisive moment that shaped the waves of migrations from Ukraine, the article tries to analyze the strategy of reconstructing the biographies of Ukrainian evangelicals in the Polish cultural context. Using the categories of migrants and missionaries as biographical types, the article contextualizes the meaning of evangelicalism through its Ukrainian and Polish variations, and at the same time refers to the processes that are occur ring in evangelical Christianity globally.
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