This data collection includes data collected as part of the Kenyan Pentecostals between home, London, and the Kingdom of God project. It includes (1) transcribed notes from meetings and conversations with key informants; and (2) electronic files of religious ephemera. (1) Between 2014 and 2015, a range of key informants (e.g. local council representatives and community and religious organisations and leaders) were interviewed with the aim of understanding their views of and interactions with African-Pentecostal churches and their members generally in their local areas and/ or the wider borough and their views on local social dynamics (long-term and recent residents; residents of different religious, ethnic, racial, and national backgrounds). (2) Church and religious ephemera (e.g. flyers and posters) related to events, activities, and conferences organised and attended by the study churches and/or their members have also been deposited. It is often presumed that migrants from the same country or region of origin constitute a pre-existing community. This study will challenge that presumption by examining modes of migrant identification and pathways of integration through the lens of religion. In doing so, it will explore the complex ways in which place, identity, and sociality intersect. Qualitative ethnographic research will be conducted among Kenyan Pentecostal migrants and Pentecostal churches in East London, UK. Key areas of interest include stories of conversion, the ways in which they make their faith visible in the urban landscape, and the social engagement activities of churches. A complementary field of inquiry will focus on the wider communities where the churches are based. The study will contribute to debates at the interface of migration, faith, identity, and urbanism and expand the comparative base for understanding exclusionary religious projects. In addition to its contributions to scholarly research, it will engage with more policy-oriented questions concerning migrant-led African Pentecostal churches’ role in wider civil society.

The project employed ethnographic methods. Data was collected between September 2014 and December 2016 in several East London boroughs in the UK.