Performative spaces in Pentecostal worship Examining the spatial atmosphere of tones and sounds

Abstract

In this article, I study acoustic elements in Pentecostal worship with a focus on the religious-aesthetic significance of tones and sounds in the performative spaces of liturgical events. My description and interpretation of this dynamic phenomenon are based on my empirical research and experience in Pentecostalism (Latin America / Peru). On the example of the Peruvian Pentecostal theologian Bernardo Campos Morante, I pneumatologically analyse the ambiguous performative spatiality in worship, which can be experienced as a spiritual atmosphere in the sense of the spatial turn in the field of tension between spatialisation and de-spatialisation.