The conversion of Spanish Roma to Pentecostal Evangelical Protestantism is one of the most unknown yet important modern religious movements. Its current spectacular transnational growth is due, among others factors, to the fact that it is directed, organized, and composed of Gypsies. This book provides one of the first serious analyses of an important historical, theological, and ethnographic account of the Pentecostal Revival movement that has been sweeping through the Southern European Roma/Gypsy.

Manuela Cantón-Delgado, who led the research team that produced this work,is currently a professor in the department of social anthropology at the University of Seville, Spain.Daniel L. Smith-Christopher led the translation project and edited the English. He is professor of Old Testament at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.

ProloguesPrologue to the Spanish Edition (2004), Dr. Teresa San Roman.Authors Prologue to the Spanish Edition (2004).Editors Prologue to the English Edition (2019)..Acknowledgments..Chapters1.Lower Andalusia Gypsies: Margins, Stigmas and History2.The Origins of Gypsy Protestantism3.The Philadelphia Evangelical Church: Formal Aspects, Representations,and Practices4.Catholic and Protestant Gypsies in Jerez de la Frontera: An exchange of glances5.These Gypsies have become Priests?: A Polyphonic History ofThe First Conversions of Andalusian Gypsies6.The God of the Markets: Gypsy Evangelism and Itinerant Commerce

7.Detoxification Centers and Healing Practices

8.Methodological Processes: Ethnography

9.Theoretical Digression: Contemporary Secularization and Emerging Religions10.Conclusions to the Spanish Edition (2004)11.Almost Fifteen Years Later(2019)Afterword of a Gypsy PastorBibliography..About the Contributors