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Religion crossing boundaries : transnational religious and social dynamics in Africa and the new African diaspora / edited by Afe Adogame and James V. Spickard

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion and the social order ; v. 18Publication details: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, c2010Description: ix, 280 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9789004187306 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 9004187308
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BL2400 .R3685 2010
Contents:
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 / Géraldine Mossière -- 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 / Joël 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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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 / Géraldine Mossière -- 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 / Joël 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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