Seekers and Things : : Spiritual Movements and Aesthetic Difference in Kinshasa / / 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 b...
Saved in:
| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
|---|---|
| VerfasserIn: | |
| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Online Access: | |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (308 p.) |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| LEADER | 03994nam a2200661 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | 9781785336706 | ||
| 003 | DE-B1597 | ||
| 005 | 20240625070013.0 | ||
| 006 | m|||||o||d|||||||| | ||
| 007 | cr || |||||||| | ||
| 008 | 240625t20172017nyu fo d z eng d | ||
| 010 | |a 2017050508 | ||
| 020 | |a 9781785336706 | ||
| 024 | 7 | |a 10.1515/9781785336706 |2 doi | |
| 035 | |a (DE-B1597)636711 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)1350571463 | ||
| 040 | |a DE-B1597 |b eng |c DE-B1597 |e rda | ||
| 041 | 0 | |a eng | |
| 044 | |a nyu |c US-NY | ||
| 050 | 0 | 0 | |a BL2470.C6 |b L37 2018 |
| 072 | 7 | |a SOC002010 |2 bisacsh | |
| 082 | 0 | 4 | |a 299.5696751 |q OCoLC |2 23/eng/20240417 |
| 084 | |a LC 30534 |2 rvk | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Lambertz, Peter, |e author. |4 aut |4 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Seekers and Things : |b Spiritual Movements and Aesthetic Difference in Kinshasa / |c Peter Lambertz. |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York ; |a Oxford : |b Berghahn Books, |c [2017] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2017 | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (308 p.) | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 347 | |a text file |b PDF |2 rda | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Illustrations -- |t Acknowledgements -- |t Introduction -- |t Chapter 1 ‘Light in the Darkness’: Towards a Congolese Spiritual Movement ‘from Japan’ -- |t Chapter 2 Occult Sciences: (Il)legitimate Secrecy and the Infrapolitics of Suspicion -- |t Chapter 3 Blossoming Boundaries: (Re-)production and Contestation of Japanese Flower Practices -- |t Chapter 4 Cleansing the City: Touch, Rubbish and Citizenship -- |t Chapter 5 Experiencing Faith: Crisis, Miracles and Spiritual Healing -- |t Chapter 6 (In) Touch without Contact: Johrei and the Aura of the Self -- |t Chapter 7 Vibrating Words: Performative Silence and the Power of Words -- |t Chapter 8 Imported Tradition: ‘Ancestor Worship’ as Reverse Orientalism -- |t Conclusion -- |t Bibliography -- |t Index |
| 506 | 0 | |a restricted access |u http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec |f online access with authorization |2 star | |
| 520 | |a 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". | ||
| 538 | |a Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. | ||
| 546 | |a In English. | ||
| 588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024) | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Aesthetics, Japanese |z Congo (Democratic Republic) |z Kinshasa. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Cults |z Congo (Democratic Republic) |z Kinshasa. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. |2 bisacsh | |
| 653 | |a Anthropology (General), Anthropology of Religion, Refugee and Migration Studies. | ||
| 773 | 0 | 8 | |i Title is part of eBook package: |d De Gruyter |t Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017 |z 9783110998214 |o ZDB-23-BHBO |
| 776 | 0 | |c print |z 9781785336690 | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785336706?locatt=mode:legacy |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785336706 |
| 856 | 4 | 2 | |3 Cover |u https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785336706/original |
| 912 | |a EBA_BACKALL | ||
| 912 | |a EBA_CL_SN | ||
| 912 | |a EBA_EBACKALL | ||
| 912 | |a EBA_EBKALL | ||
| 912 | |a EBA_ECL_SN | ||
| 912 | |a EBA_EEBKALL | ||
| 912 | |a EBA_ESSHALL | ||
| 912 | |a EBA_PPALL | ||
| 912 | |a EBA_SSHALL | ||
| 912 | |a GBV-deGruyter-alles | ||
| 912 | |a ZDB-23-BHBO |b 2017 | ||