Religion on the Move! New Dynamics of Religious Expansion in a Globalizing World

Adogame Afe & Shankar Shobana

ISBN 10: 9004242287 / ISBN 13: 9789004242289

Published by Brill, Leiden. Boston, 2013

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Book measures 24x16.cm. viii, 470pp. Bound in original publishers laminated, illustrated hardcover. Bumped on spine. Binding in near fine condition. Internally, pages clean throughout. A very nice clean copy. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Religion on the Move! New Dynamics of Religious Expansion in a Globalizing World
• Publisher: Brill, Leiden. Boston
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004242287
• ISBN 13: 9789004242289
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good Plus Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Religion
  • History

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Synopsis

How do religions spread in today’s world, where Christian missions have lost influence and modern nations have replaced colonial empires? Religion on the Move! is a collection of essays charting new religious expansions. Contemporary evangelists may be Nigerian, Korean, Brazilian or Congolese, working at the grassroots and outside the mainstream in Pentecostal, reformist Islamic, and Hindu spiritual currents. While transportation and media provide newfound mobility, the mission field may be next door, in Europe, North America, and within the "South," where migrants from Africa, Asia, and Latin America settle. These essays, using perspectives from religious studies, ethnography, history and sociology, show that immigrants, women, and other disempowered peoples transmit their faiths from everywhere to everywhere, engaging in globalization from below.

Contributors include: Afe Adogame, Shobana Shankar, Matthew Forrest Lowe, Dyron B. Daughrity, Janel Kragt Bakker, Rebecca Catto, Jonas Adelin Jørgensen, Shuma Iwai, Albert Wuaku, Hakano Abdi Wario, Ramzi Ben Amara, Rebecca Y. Kim, Annalisa Butticci, Heidemarie Winkel, Anderson H M Jeremiah, Olufunke Adeboye, Mark Shaw, Marilia Fiorillo, Musa. O. Adeniyi, Daniëlle Koning, Susanne Kröhnert-Othman, Philip Wingeier-Rayo, Matthew Kustenbauder, Damien Mottier, and Bolaji Bateye.

About the Author

Afe Adogame, Ph.D. (1998), Bayreuth University, Germany is Associate Professor of Religious Studies/World Christianity at University of Edinburgh. He has published monographs, edited books on religion in Africa and the diaspora, including Religion Crossing Boundaries (2010), and African Christian Diaspora (2013).
Shobana Shankar, Ph.D. (2003), University of California, Los Angeles, is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Georgetown University. She has published on religion in Africa, including a monograph, Who Shall Enter Paradise: Christian Missions and the Politics of Difference in Muslim Northern Nigeria.