Traveling Spirits: Migrants, Markets and Mobilities

ISBN-13: 9780415998789 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 218 str.

Huwelmeier Gertrud; Gertrud Huwelmeier; Kristine Krause

Opis

Maintaining and forging religious networks across borders have long been part of migrants' activities. However, due to the wide availability of communication technologies and the reduced costs of transportation, transnational social practices, including religious activities, have witnessed an enormous intensification in the last few decades around the world. Traveling Spirits seeks to understand these processes by investigating how religion goes global. How do religious agents create and maintain transborder connections? In what way are religious practices being transformed, reinforced or newly invented when transported to different places around the world? How are power relations negotiated within transnational religious networks? How are processes of coming and going linked to religious practices and discourses? The book's contributors provide rich ethnographic case studies on mobile evangelists, moving spirit mediums, and traveling believers. They analyze the relationship between global, regional, national, local and individual religious processes by centering on economic activities, media representations, or politics of emplacement. Grounded firmly in cross-cultural comparison, this book contributes significantly to the literature on globalization, migration and transnational religion.

Recenzje

'The diverse, significant conversations in this volume will be of immediate use to active researchers across disciplines.' – Anthropological Forum 

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.