Live and Die Singing: the Music in Chilean Pentecostalism

This article aims to describe and interpret the role of music in Chilean Pentecostalism to highlight its relevance in foundationalism, its literary imaginary and its importance and meanings in mortuary time and places. Our theoretical approach will focus on the perception of musical realities, as well as on the musical feelings that an individual belonging to a certain group transmits and produces when stricken by illness, pain, death, loss and/or misery. Methodological-ly, we worked with Fuego del Pentecostes, a magazine belonging to the Evangelical Pentecostal Church. We also studied two novels in which the authors included Pentecostal characters in their narratives and where music plays an important part in the religious culture of the movement depicted. Both sources have allowed us to enrich and complement the role of music in Pentecostalism.