Transnational Transcendence

by Csordas, Thomas J.

• ISBN13: 9780520257412
• ISBN10: 0520257413
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-03-31
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

This innovative collection examines the transnational movements, effects, and transformations of religion in the contemporary world, offering a fresh perspective on the interrelation between globalization and religion.Transnational Transcendencechallenges some widely accepted ideas about this relationship--in particular, that globalization can be understood solely as an economic phenomenon and that its religious manifestations are secondary. The book points out that religion's role remains understudied and undertheorized as an element in debates about globalization, and it raises questions about how and why certain forms of religious practice and intersubjectivity succeed as they cross national and cultural boundaries. Framed by Thomas J. Csordas's introduction, this timely volume both urges further development of a theory of religion and globalization and constitutes an important step toward that theory.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. IX
Introduction: Modalities of Transnational Transcendence	p. 1
Missionization in the Postcolonial World: A View from Brazil and Elsewhere	p. 31
Is the Trans-in Transnational the Trans-in Transcendent? On Alterity and the Sacred in the Age of Globalization	p. 55
Global Religion and the Reenchantment of the World: The Case of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal	p. 73
Veiled Missionaries and Embattled Christians in Colonial Sudan	p. 97
Beyond Integration and Recognition: Diasporic Constructions of Alevi Muslim Identity between Germany and Turkey	p. 121
The Burning: Finitude and the Political-Theological Imagination of Illegal Migration	p. 145
Trajectories, Frontiers, and Reparations in the Expansion of Santo Daime to Europe	p. 185
The Orisha Atlantic: Historicizing the Roots of a Global Religion	p. 205
The Many Who Dance in Me: Afro-Atlantic Ontology and the Problem with "Transnationalism"	p. 231
Global Breathing: Religious Utopias in India and China	p. 263
The Return Path: Anthropology of a Western Yogi	p. 279
The Global Reach of Gods and the Travels of Korean Shamans
Laurel Kendall	p. 305
Contributors	p. 327
Index	p. 331
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