The Public Face of African New Religious Movements in Diaspora

Imagining the Religious 'Other'
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4724-2010-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 603 g

Reihe: Routledge Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements

The growing pace of international migration, technological revolution in media and travel generate circumstances that provide opportunities for the mobility of African new religious movements (ANRMs) within Africa and beyond. ANRMs are furthering their self-assertion and self-insertion into the religious landscapes of Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Their growing presence and public visibility seem to be more robustly captured by the popular media than by scholars of NRMs, historians of religion and social scientists, a tendency that has probably shaped the public mental picture and understanding of the phenomena. This book provides new theoretical and methodological insights for understanding and interpreting ANRMs and African-derived religions in diaspora. Contributors focus on individual 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; their public/civic roles; group self-definition; public perceptions and responses; tendencies towards integration/segregation; organisational networks; gender orientations and the implications of interactions within and between the groups and with the host societies. The book includes contributions from scholars and religious practitioners, thus offering new insights into how ANRMs can be better defined, approached, and interpreted by scholars, policy makers, and media practitioners alike.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adogame, Afe

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.