Religion Crossing Boundaries (Religion and the Social Order)

Religion Crossing Boundaries......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface: Real Globalization: Everything is Local......Page 8
Introduction: Africa, The New African Diaspora, and Religious Transnationalism in a Global World......Page 12
TRANSNATIONAL DYNAMICS IN AFRICAN MIGRATION......Page 40
1. The Visa God: Would-Be Migrants and the Instrumentalization of Religion......Page 42
2. A Nigerian Mother in Israel at Coney Island: Authority, Gender, and Translation in a Transnational Yoruba Religion......Page 60
3. Mobility and Belonging among Transnational Congolese Pentecostal Congregations: Modernity and the Emergence of Socioeconomic Differences......Page 74
4. Mediating Spiritual Power: African Christianity, Transnationalism and the Media......Page 98
TRANSNATIONAL DYNAMICS WITHIN AFRICA......Page 116
5. On the Inscrutability of the Ways of God: TheTransnationalization of Pentecostalism on the West African Coast......Page 118
6. Pentecostals Moving South-South: Brazilian and Ghanaian Transnationalism in Southern Africa......Page 134
7. “When you Make Sacrifice, No One is a Stranger”: Divination, Sacrifice and Identity among Translocals in the West African Urban Diaspora......Page 154
8. The Boundary-Crossing Influence of African Initiated Churches (AICs) on Youth in Emuhaya District, Western Kenya......Page 176
9. Gospel without Borders: Gender Dynamics of Transnational Religious Movements in Kenya and the Kenyan Diaspora......Page 196
10. The Bonnke Effect: Encounters with Transnational Evangelism in Southeastern Nigeria......Page 222
WIDER IMPLICATIONS OF TRANSNATIONAL AFRICAN RELIGIONS......Page 238
11. The Pan-African Church: Nation, Self, and Spirit in Winners’ Chapel, Nigeria......Page 240
12. Transnational Tradition: The Global Dynamics of “African Traditional Religion”......Page 264
Contributors......Page 288