Traveling Spirits: Migrants, Markets and Mobilities

by Hnwelmeier; Gertrud

• ISBN13: 9780415998789
• ISBN10: 0415998786
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Globalisation has provided tools for religious actors and organisations to thrive in migrant communities, as fluid transnational networks help project messages across borders and from a local to a global audience. This volume addresses several under-examined questions of religious practices within migrant communities and transnational religious networks.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. vii
List of Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Traveling Spirits: Unconcealment and Undisplacement	p. 17
Haunted by Spirits: Balancing Religious Commitment and Moral Obligations in Haitian Transnational Social Fields	p. 36
Spirited Migrations: The Travels of hen Dong Spirits and Their Mediums	p. 52
Ghanaian Pentecostal Prophets: Transnational Travel and (Im-)Mobility	p. 67
Religious Media, Mobile Spirits: Publicity and Secrecy in African Pentecostalism and Traditional Religion	p. 83
Social Catapulting and the Spirit of Entrepreneurialism: Migrants, Private Initiative, and the Pentecostal Ethic in Botswana	p. 101
'Trading in Spirits'? Transnational Flows, Entrepreneurship, and Commodifications in Vietnamese Spirit Mediumship	p. 118
Moving East: Transnational Ties of Vietnamese Pentecostals	p. 133
Symbolic Geographies of the Sacred: Diasporic Territorialization and Charismatic Power in a Transnational Congolese Prophetic Church	p. 145
From House Cells to Warehouse Churches? Christian Church Outreach Mission International in Translocal Contexts	p. 165
Constructing the Globe: A Charismatic Sublime?	p. 186
Contributors	p. 203
Index	p. 209
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