Transnational religious spaces : : religious organizations and interactions in Africa, East Asia, and beyond / / edited by Philip Clart and Adam Jones.

• TeilnehmendeR: Clart, Philip, 1963-; Jones, Adam,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Dialectics of the global ; Volume 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 322 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• On the Series
• Contents
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Flows and Dams: Rethinking Categories for the Study of Transnationalism
• 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
• 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
• 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