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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. 18.Publication details: Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 280 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789004189140
  • 9004189149
  • 9789004187306
  • 9004187308
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Religion crossing boundaries.DDC classification:
  • 200.89/96 22
LOC classification:
  • BL2400 .R3685 2010eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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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 / G{acute}eraldine Mossiáere -- 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.
Summary: The essays in this volume illustrates the variety and power of predominantly pentecostal-charismatic movements between Western and African religious actors and groups that has developed across the past twenty years. In so doing, it also highlights the dramatic change in global ""migration"" patterns as a result of relatively inexpensive air travel

Includes bibliographical references.

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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 / G{acute}eraldine Mossiáere -- 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.

The essays in this volume illustrates the variety and power of predominantly pentecostal-charismatic movements between Western and African religious actors and groups that has developed across the past twenty years. In so doing, it also highlights the dramatic change in global ""migration"" patterns as a result of relatively inexpensive air travel