The territories of deliverance: sociotemporal reconfigurations of the Congolese revival

From research led for years within pentecostal Congolese circles (France, Belgium, Canada, Kinshasa) this paper explores the religious transformations of diasporic churches. The
migratory reorientation, from RDC to Europe and from Europe to Canada, shows a reformulation of “deliverance”, leitmotiv of churches discourses, that informs the historical depth of the religious formation. Considering the continuity of this theology of Salvation with the prophecies of precolonial and colonial periods and the globalization in which Congolese revival is inserted, I look at how spatial mobility influence the colonial memory of theses diasporic groups.