Journeying towards Multiculturalism. The Relationship between Immigrant Christians and Dutch Indigenous Churches.

Due to globalisation and migration western Europe has become home to adherents
of many different religions. Th is article focuses on one aspect of the changes
on the religious scene; it investigates in what way immigration—and Christian
immigrant religiosity particularly—has affected the structure and identity of the
Dutch Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant Church in the Netherlands.
We argue that the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands has been able to
accommodate a substantial group of immigrants whilst the PCN seems to encounter more problems responding to the increasingly multicultural society. We conclude that both churches, however, in structure and theology, remain largely
unaffected by the influx of immigrant Christians.