Transnational Religious Spaces: Religious Organizations and Interactions in Africa, East Asia, and Beyond

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Transnational Religious Spaces

Religious Organizations and Interactions in Africa, East Asia, and Beyond

Edited by: Philip Clart and Adam Jones

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2020

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Volume 8 | Dialectics of the Global

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This volume, bringing together work by scholars from Europe, East Asia, North America, and West Africa, investigates transnational religious spaces in a comparative manner by juxtaposing East Asian and African examples. It highlights flows of ideas, actors, and organizations out of, into, or within a given continental space. These flows are patterned mainly by colonialism or migration. The book also examines cases where the transnational space in question encompasses both East Asia and Africa, notably in the development of Japanese new religions in Africa. Most of the studies are located in the present; a few go back to the late nineteenth century. The volume is rounded off by Thomas Tweed’s systematic reflections on categories for the study of transnationalism; his chapter "Flows and Dams" critically weighs the metaphorical language we use to think, speak, and write about transnational religious spaces.

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Adam Jones, University of Leipzig; Philip Clart, University of Leipzig, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
On the Series Open Access Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
1 Introduction Philip Clart Open Access Download PDF	1
2 Flows and Dams: Rethinking Categories for the Study of Transnationalism Thomas A. Tweed Open Access Download PDF	10
Part I: Transnational Spaces in Colonial Settings
3 From Mission Station to Tent Revival: Material Forms and Spatial Formats in Africa’s Missionary Encounter Marian Burchardt Open Access Download PDF	35
4 Mission Spaces in German East Africa: Spatial Imaginations, Implementations, and Incongruities against the Backdrop of an Emerging Colonial Spatial Order Adam Jones and Geert Castryck Open Access Download PDF	51
5 Redeeming Zululand: Placing Cultural Resonances in the Nazareth Baptist Church, South Africa Magnus Echtler Open Access Download PDF	84
Part II: Migration and Transnational Religious Spaces
6 From Redemption City to Christian Disneyland: The Unfolding of Transnational Religious Spaces Afe Adogame Open Access Download PDF	109
7 Transnational Evangelical Spaces in Muslim Urban Settings: The Presence and Place-Making of African Christian Migrants in Morocco Johara Berriane Open Access Download PDF	133
8 Transforming Spatial Formats: Imagined Commonalities, Imaginary Spaces, and Spaces of Imagination Klaus Hock Open Access Download PDF	150
9 Transitioning the Vietnamese Ullambana Festival to Taiwan Wei-Yi Cheng Open Access Download PDF	169
10 Vietnamese Transnational Religions: The Cold War Polarities of Temples in “Little Hanois” and “Little Saigons” Janet Alison Hoskins and Nguyen Thi Hien Open Access Download PDF	183
11 Tiantai Transnationalism: Mobility, Identity, and Lineage Networks in Modern Chinese Buddhism Rongdao Lai Open Access Download PDF	210
Part III: Transnational Religious Spaces and Transcultural Interactions
12 Of Ancestors and Others: Cultural Resonance from Japan among Spiritualists in Kinshasa Peter Lambertz Open Access Download PDF	227
13 Japanese Spiritualities in Africa: From a Transnational Space to the Creation of a Local Lifestyle Frédérique Louveau Open Access Download PDF	245
14 American Dao and Global Interactions: Transnational Religious Networks in an English-Speaking Yiguandao Congregation in Urban California Nikolas Broy Open Access Download PDF	263
15 Generating Global Pure Lands: Renjian Buddhist Civic Engagement within and beyond the Chinese Diaspora Communities Worldwide Jens Reinke Open Access Download PDF	283
List of Contributors Open Access Download PDF	305
Index Open Access Download PDF	311

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322

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110690101

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Colonialism; Migration; Religion; Transnationalism

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