Seekers and Things : : Spiritual Movements and Aesthetic Difference in Kinshasa / / Peter Lambertz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Lambertz, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Chapter 1 ‘Light in the Darkness’: Towards a Congolese Spiritual Movement ‘from Japan’ --; Chapter 2 Occult Sciences: (Il)legitimate Secrecy and the Infrapolitics of Suspicion --; Chapter 3 Blossoming Boundaries: (Re-)production and Contestation of Japanese Flower Practices --; Chapter 4 Cleansing the City: Touch, Rubbish and Citizenship --; Chapter 5 Experiencing Faith: Crisis, Miracles and Spiritual Healing --; Chapter 6 (In) Touch without Contact: Johrei and the Aura of the Self --; Chapter 7 Vibrating Words: Performative Silence and the Power of Words --; Chapter 8 Imported Tradition: ‘Ancestor Worship’ as Reverse Orientalism --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785336706; 9783110998214
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785336706?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Peter Lambertz.

Focusing on the intricate presence of a Japanese new religion (Sekai Kyûseikyô) in the densely populated and primarily Christian environment of Kinshasa (DR Congo), this ethnographic study offers a practitioner-orientated perspective to create a localized picture of religious globalization. Guided by an aesthetic approach to religion, the study moves beyond a focus limited to text and offers insights into the role of religious objects, spiritual technologies and aesthetic repertoires in the production and politics of difference. The boundaries between non-Christian religious minorities and the largely Christian public sphere involve fears and suspicion of "magic" and "occult sciences".