Celestial Church of Christ in Italia. Percorsi, Spazi e Pratiche Rituali

The present work proposes an analysis of an independent African church in Italy, the Celestial Church Of Christ Worldwide (CCCW), trying to focus on the connection between religion, migration and the process of 'plunting churches' (Kooning 2009) in Italian context. Through field research, were investigated paths to personal, family and community members of a 'Celestial Parish' in the town of Brescia, 'Ileri Oluwa Parish', in order to understand the nature of identity processes involved in the organization of CCC in Italy. 'Ileri Oluwa Parish', since the place which reflects a 'church individually connected to a diocese' (CCC Constitution (CCC Constitution, 107 (d) reveals, in the materiality of its forms and the 'Devotional Services' that take place in it , to 'field of action' (Lefebvre, 1991). The history of the church, the foundations of his doctrine and the meanings communicated through ritual and religious forms that it promotes, were contextualized in the light of the tensions and strategies of power that structure the field. The stories of the members of the parish, routes of migration and ongoing mobility, are the lens through which he looked at the relationships lived in the name of 'Spirit', and the perception of what Celestians define sacred, holy, pure, and impure. Fixe gaze to the ordinary life of a parish celestial in Italy, covering the last part of the research to the Celestial Parish London, it was crucial to understand the interweaving of spiritual relationships, family networks and mobility of individuals on the Italian and European territory, process that turns the diasporic condition of the CCC, transforming a state of dispersion in a value-added, the possibility of new trajectories and territorial spaces of religious and socio-economic presence.