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Seekers and Things : Spiritual Movements and Aesthetic Difference in Kinshasa / Peter Lambertz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (308 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785336690
  • 9781785336706
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 299.5696751 23/eng/20240417
LOC classification:
  • BL2470.C6 L37 2018
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 ‘Light in the Darkness’: Towards a Congolese Spiritual Movement ‘from Japan’ -- Chapter 2 Occult Sciences: (Il)legitimate Secrecy and the Infrapolitics of Suspicion -- Chapter 3 Blossoming Boundaries: (Re-)production and Contestation of Japanese Flower Practices -- Chapter 4 Cleansing the City: Touch, Rubbish and Citizenship -- Chapter 5 Experiencing Faith: Crisis, Miracles and Spiritual Healing -- Chapter 6 (In) Touch without Contact: Johrei and the Aura of the Self -- Chapter 7 Vibrating Words: Performative Silence and the Power of Words -- Chapter 8 Imported Tradition: ‘Ancestor Worship’ as Reverse Orientalism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Focusing on the intricate presence of a Japanese new religion (Sekai Kyûseikyô) in the densely populated and primarily Christian environment of Kinshasa (DR Congo), this ethnographic study offers a practitioner-orientated perspective to create a localized picture of religious globalization. Guided by an aesthetic approach to religion, the study moves beyond a focus limited to text and offers insights into the role of religious objects, spiritual technologies and aesthetic repertoires in the production and politics of difference. The boundaries between non-Christian religious minorities and the largely Christian public sphere involve fears and suspicion of "magic" and "occult sciences".

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 ‘Light in the Darkness’: Towards a Congolese Spiritual Movement ‘from Japan’ -- Chapter 2 Occult Sciences: (Il)legitimate Secrecy and the Infrapolitics of Suspicion -- Chapter 3 Blossoming Boundaries: (Re-)production and Contestation of Japanese Flower Practices -- Chapter 4 Cleansing the City: Touch, Rubbish and Citizenship -- Chapter 5 Experiencing Faith: Crisis, Miracles and Spiritual Healing -- Chapter 6 (In) Touch without Contact: Johrei and the Aura of the Self -- Chapter 7 Vibrating Words: Performative Silence and the Power of Words -- Chapter 8 Imported Tradition: ‘Ancestor Worship’ as Reverse Orientalism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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Focusing on the intricate presence of a Japanese new religion (Sekai Kyûseikyô) in the densely populated and primarily Christian environment of Kinshasa (DR Congo), this ethnographic study offers a practitioner-orientated perspective to create a localized picture of religious globalization. Guided by an aesthetic approach to religion, the study moves beyond a focus limited to text and offers insights into the role of religious objects, spiritual technologies and aesthetic repertoires in the production and politics of difference. The boundaries between non-Christian religious minorities and the largely Christian public sphere involve fears and suspicion of "magic" and "occult sciences".

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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