Seekers and Things

Spiritual Movements and Aesthetic Difference in Kinshasa
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-669-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 602 g

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".

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lambertz, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of 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

Über Autor(innen)

Lambertz, Peter
Peter Lambertz is a post-doc fellow at the German Historical Institute (Paris) and the Centre des recherches sur les politiques sociales in Dakar. He holds a joint PhD from the universities of Utrecht and Leipzig (Religious Studies/African Studies) and has been teaching at the Philosophat Edith Stein in Kisangani.

Peter Lambertz is a post-doc fellow at the German Historical Institute (Paris) and the Centre des recherches sur les politiques sociales in Dakar. He holds a joint PhD from the universities of Utrecht and Leipzig (Religious Studies/African Studies) and has been teaching at the Philosophat Edith Stein in Kisangani.