TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lambertz,Peter
TI  - Seekers and Things: Spiritual Movements and Aesthetic Difference in Kinshasa 
SN  - 9781785336690
AV  - BL2470.C6 L37 2018
U1  - 299.5696751 23/eng/20240417
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Aesthetics, Japanese
KW  - Congo (Democratic Republic)
KW  - Kinshasa
KW  - Cults
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthropology (General), Anthropology of Religion, Refugee and Migration Studies
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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"
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785336706?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785336706
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785336706/original
ER  -