Religion crossing boundaries: transnational religious and social dynamics in Africa and the new African diaspora
Preface: Real globalization : everything is local / William H. Swatos, Jr. -- Introduction: Africa, the new African diaspora, and religious transnationalism in a global world / James V. Spickard and Afe Adogame -- Transnational dynamics in African migration. The visa God : would-be migrants and the...
| Résumé: | Preface: Real globalization : everything is local / William H. Swatos, Jr. -- Introduction: Africa, the new African diaspora, and religious transnationalism in a global world / James V. Spickard and Afe Adogame -- Transnational dynamics in African migration. The visa God : would-be migrants and the instrumentalization of religion / Ebenezer Obadare and Wale Adebanwi -- A Nigerian mother in Israel at Coney Island : authority, gender, and translation in a transnational Yoruba religion / Mei-Mei Sanford -- Mobility and belonging among transnational Congolese Pentecostal congregations : modernity and the emergence of socioeconomic differences / G{acute}eraldine Mossi{grave}ere -- Mediating spiritual power : African Christianity, transnationalism and the media / J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu -- Transnational dynamics within Africa. On the inscrutability of the ways of God : the transnationalization of Pentecostalism on the West African coast / Jo{uml}el Noret -- Pentecostals moving south-south : Brazilian and Ghanaian transnationalism in Southern Africa / Linda van de Kamp and Rijk van Dijk -- "When you make sacrifice, no one is a stranger" : divination, sacrifice and identity among translocals in the West African urban diapora / Laura S. Grillo -- The boundary-crossing influence of African Initiated Churches (AICs) on youth in Emuhaya District / Susan M. Kilonzo -- Gospel without borders : gender dynamics of transnational religious movements in Kenya and the Kenyan diaspora / Damaris Seleina Parsitau and Philomena Njeri Mwaura -- The Bonnke effect : encounters with transnational evangelism in southeastern Nigeria / Edlyne E. Anugwom -- Wider implications of transnational African religions. The Pan-African church : nation, self, and spirit in Winners' Chapel, Nigeria / Samuel Krinsky -- Transnational tradition : the global dynamics of "African traditional religion" / Marleen de Witte |
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| Description: | Includes bibliographical references. - Description based on print version record |
| ISBN: | 9004189149 |