The Public Face of African New Religious Movements in Diaspora (eBook, ePUB)

Imagining the Religious 'Other'
Redaktion: Adogame, Afe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides new theoretical and methodological insights for understanding and interpreting ANRMs and African-derived religions in diaspora. Contributors focus on groups and movements drawn from Christian, Islamic, Jewish and African-derived religious movements and explore their provenance and patterns of emergence, their belief systems and ritual practices. The book offers new insights into how ANRMs can be better defined, approached, and interpreted by scholars, policy makers and media practitioners alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317018636
• Artikelnr.: 44815773

Autorenporträt

Afe Adogame is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies and World Christianity at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include African New Religious movements, Indigenous Religions, and Religions of the African Diaspora. He is the General Secretary of the African Association for the Study of Religion (AASR); and Secretary/Treasurer of the International Sociological Association Research Committee 22 on Sociology of Religion (ISA/RC22). His most recent publications include: The African Christian Diaspora: New Currents and Emerging Trends in World Christianity; (eds) Religions on the Move: Dynamics of Religious Expansion in a Globalizing World; (eds) African Traditions in the Study of Religion, Diaspora and Gendered Societies; (eds) African Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa; (ed.) Who is Afraid of the Holy Ghost? Pentecostalism and Globalization in Africa and Beyond; (eds) Religion Crossing Boundaries: Transnational Religious and Social Dynamics in Africa and the New African Diaspora.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The Public Face of African New Religious Movements in Diaspora
Afe Adogame 1 The Discourse about 'Africa' in Religious Communities in
Brazil: How Africa Becomes the Ultimate Source of Authenticity in
Afro-Brazilian Religions Bettina E. Schmidt 2 Irrecha: A Traditional Oromo
Religious Ritual Goes Global Asebe Regassa and Meron Zeleke 3
Self-Representation by Black Majority Christianity in Britain Abel Ugba 4
The Transnational Dynamics of Black Jews in France Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot
and Cécile Coquet-Mokoko 5 'Take Over Asia for God!': The Public Face of
African Pentecostal Churches in China Heidi Østbø Haugen 6 Uncovering an
Alternative Story: Examining the Religious and Social Lives of
Afro-Caribbean Youth in London and New York City Janice McLean-Farrell 7
Juggling Multiple Identities to Overcome Minority Status: Young Congolese
Pentecostals in Montreal (Quebec) Géraldine Mossière 8 'Living by the
Spirit': African Christian Communities in Sweden Anne Kubai 9 'Penetrating
the Unseen': The Role of Religion and Spiritual Practices in the Senegalese
Boat Migration Process Henrietta M. Nyamnjoh 10 'The Coca-Cola of Churches
Arrives': Nigeria's Redeemed Christian Church of God in Brazil Laura
Premack 11 Nigerian Pentecostals in Britain: Towards Prosperity or
Consumerism? Israel Olofinjana 12 Public Perception of Witchcraft
Accusations, Stereotyping and Child Abuse: A Case Study of Britain's Black
Majority Churches Babatunde Adedibu 13 The Strangers in our Midst: Issues
of Misunderstanding between African Migrant Churches in Germany and the
Mainstream German Churches Garnet Parris