The Dead Are Dead/Ancestors Never Die: Migrants, Rural Linkages, and Religious Change in Northeastern Madagascar
This manuscript explores the dynamic between religion and rural-urban linkages in northeastern Madagascar. I find that church leaders have coalesced around two competing narratives of ancestors. Catholic churches see some types of migrant linkages (e.g., burial in the rural family tomb and participa...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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Journal of religion in Africa
Year: 2018, Volume: 48, Issue: 4, Pages: 347-375 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Madagascar (Nord)
/ Rural area
/ Migration / Internal
/ City
/ Ancestor cult
/ Catholic church
/ Acceptance
/ Protestantism
/ Rejection of
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion CH Christianity and Society KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KDB Roman Catholic Church KDD Protestant Church |
| Further subjects: | B
rural-urban linkages
B Pentecostalism B Migration B Protestantism B Catholicism B Madagascar B Ancestors |
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |