Missionary Enthusiasm and Human Rights Activism : A Study of the ReligioPolitical World of the Swedish Slavic Mission, c. 1965-1985
This paper explores how the Helsinki process altered practices within the Swedish Pentecostal community. In order to understand this process of change, we need to take two fundamental, and slightly contradictory, traits related to the East-West conflict found among this religious grouping into account. First, post-WWII Swedish Pentecostals were in general vehemently opposed to Communism and to the