L'église des Miracles au Cap-Vert: Dissidence ou clonage dans la mouvance néopentecôtiste?

From the beginning Pentecostalism seems to reproduce itself by a succession of permanent disruptions, in which the believer or the pastor, qualified as "dissident," creates his own church. This passage from one church to another, gives rise to a series of semantic issues but also very pragmatic questions: what does the term "dissidence" finally stand for? Indeed, if the new church is positioned in reference to the previous one, whether through the condemnation or the exacerbation of its genuine characteristics, we can wonder to what measure it reveals a genuine doctrinal "reform" rather than a mere "cloning." Our discussion will turn around a study of the recent and controversial case of the "Church of the Miracles" founded in 2009 in Praia (Cape Verde), by the figurehead Marcelo Abrantes, who was a pastor in the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God for 25 years.