Transnational Religious Spaces : : Religious Organizations and Interactions in Africa, East Asia, and Beyond / / ed. by Philip Clart, Adam Jones.

This volume, bringing together work by scholars from Europe, East Asia, North America, and West Africa, investigates transnational religious spaces in a comparative manner by juxtaposing East Asian and African examples. It highlights flows of ideas, actors, and organizations out of, into, or within...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
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Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Dialectics of the Global , 8
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 322 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • On the Series
  • Contents
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Flows and Dams: Rethinking Categories for the Study of Transnationalism
  • Part I: Transnational Spaces in Colonial Settings
  • 3 From Mission Station to Tent Revival: Material Forms and Spatial Formats in Africa’s Missionary Encounter
  • 4 Mission Spaces in German East Africa: Spatial Imaginations, Implementations, and Incongruities against the Backdrop of an Emerging Colonial Spatial Order
  • 5 Redeeming Zululand: Placing Cultural Resonances in the Nazareth Baptist Church, South Africa
  • Part II: Migration and Transnational Religious Spaces
  • 6 From Redemption City to Christian Disneyland: The Unfolding of Transnational Religious Spaces
  • 7 Transnational Evangelical Spaces in Muslim Urban Settings: The Presence and Place-Making of African Christian Migrants in Morocco
  • 8 Transforming Spatial Formats: Imagined Commonalities, Imaginary Spaces, and Spaces of Imagination
  • 9 Transitioning the Vietnamese Ullambana Festival to Taiwan
  • 10 Vietnamese Transnational Religions: The Cold War Polarities of Temples in “Little Hanois” and “Little Saigons”
  • 11 Tiantai Transnationalism: Mobility, Identity, and Lineage Networks in Modern Chinese Buddhism
  • Part III: Transnational Religious Spaces and Transcultural Interactions
  • 12 Of Ancestors and Others: Cultural Resonance from Japan among Spiritualists in Kinshasa
  • 13 Japanese Spiritualities in Africa: From a Transnational Space to the Creation of a Local Lifestyle
  • 14 American Dao and Global Interactions: Transnational Religious Networks in an English-Speaking Yiguandao Congregation in Urban California
  • 15 Generating Global Pure Lands: Renjian Buddhist Civic Engagement within and beyond the Chinese Diaspora Communities Worldwide
  • List of Contributors
  • Index