Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. INTRODUCTION. Affective Trajectories in Religious African Cityscapes 1
5. PART I AFFECTIVE INFRASTRUCTURES
6. CHAPTER ONE. Affective Regenerations: Intimacy, Cleansing, and Mourning in and around Johannesburg’s Dark Buildings 29
7. CHAPTER TWO. Emotions as Affective Trajectories of Belief in Mwari (God) among Masowe Apostles in Urban Zimbabwe 52
8. CHAPTER THREE. The Sites of Divine Encounter: Affective Religious Spaces and Sensational Practices in Christ Embassy and NASFAT in the City of Abuja 77
9. CHAPTER FOUR. Religious Sophistication in African Pentecostalism: An Urban Spirit? 98
10. PART II EMOTIONS ON THE MOVE
11. CHAPTER FIVE. Affective Routes of Healing: Navigating Paths of Recovery in Urban and Rural West Africa 119
12. CHAPTER SIX. The Cleansing Touch: Spirits, Atmospheres, and Attouchment in a “Japanese” Spiritual Movement in Kinshasa 138
13. CHAPTER SEVEN. Learning How to Feel: Emotional Repertoires of Nigerian and Congolese Pentecostal Pastors in the Diaspora 160
14. PART III EMBODIMENT, SUBJECTIVITY, AND BELONGING
15. CHAPTER EIGHT. “Those Who Pray Together”: Religious Practice, Affect, and Dissent among Muslims in Asante (Ghana) 185
16. CHAPTER NINE. Longing for Connection: Christian Education and Emerging Urban Lifestyles in Botswana 202
17. CHAPTER TEN. “Here, Here Is a Place Where I Can Cry”: Religion in a Context of Displacement: Congolese Churches in Kampala 222
18. CHAPTER ELEVEN. Men of Love? Affective Conversions on Township Streets 243
19. BIBLIOGRAPHY 263
20. CONTRIBUTORS 299
21. INDEX 303