Traveling Spirits (eBook, ePUB)

Migrants, Markets and Mobilities
Redaktion: Hüwelmeier, Gertrud; Krause, Kristine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Globalisation has provided tools for religious actors and organisations to thrive in migrant communities, as fluid transnational networks help project messages across borders and from a local to a global audience. This volume addresses several under-examined questions of religious practices within migrant communities and transnational religious networks.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135224158
• Artikelnr.: 42513950

Autorenporträt

Gertrud Hüwelmeier is a senior research fellow and lecturer of Social Anthropology at the Humboldt University Berlin. Kristine Krause is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Goettingen.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Gertrud Hüwelmeier and Kristine Krause 1. Traveling Spirits:
Unconcealment and Undisplacement Michael Lambek 2. Haunted by Spirits:
Balancing Religious Commitment and Moral Obligations in Haitian
Transnational Social Fields Heike Drotbohm 3. Spirited Migrations: The
Travels of Len Dong Spirits and Their Mediums Karen Fjelstad 4. Ghanaian
Pentecostal Prophets: Transnational Travel and (Im-)Mobility Girish Daswani
5. Religious Media, Mobile Spirits: Publicity and Secrecy in African
Pentecostalism and Traditional Religion Marleen de Witte 6. Social
Catapulting and the Spirit of Entrepreneurialism: Migrants, Private
Initiative, and the Pentecostal Ethic in Botswana Rijk van Dijk 7. "Trading
in Spirits"? Transnational Flows, Entrepreneurship, and Commodifications in
Vietnamese Spirit Mediumship Kirsten W. Endres 8. Moving East:
Transnational Ties of Vietnamese Pentecostals Gertrud Hüwelmeier 9.
Symbolic Geographies of the Sacred: Diasporic Territorialization and
Charismatic Power in a Transnational Congolese Prophetic Church David
Garbin 10. From House Cells to Warehouse Churches? Christian Church
Outreach Mission International in Translocal Contexts Afe Adogame 11.
Constructing the Globe: A Charismatic Sublime? Simon Coleman