Traveling Spirits: Migrants, Markets and Mobilities (Routledge Studies in Anthropology)

ISBN 10: 0415808006 / ISBN 13: 9780415808002

Published by Routledge, 2011

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Globalisation has provided tools for religious actors and organisations to thrive in migrant communities, as fluid transnational networks help project messages across borders and from a local to a global audience. This volume addresses several under-examined questions of religious practices within migrant communities. Editor(s): Huwelmeier, Gertrud; Krause, Kristine. Num Pages: 230 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white tables, 2 black & white halftones, 5 black. BIC Classification: HRA; JFFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 362. . 2011. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Traveling Spirits: Migrants, Markets and Mobilities (Routledge Studies in Anthropology)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415808006
• ISBN 13: 9780415808002
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Maintaining and forging religious networks across borders have long been part of migrants' activities. However, due to the wide availability of communication technologies and the reduced costs of transportation, transnational social practices, including religious activities, have witnessed an enormous intensification in the last few decades around the world.

Traveling Spirits seeks to understand these processes by investigating how religion goes global. How do religious agents create and maintain transborder connections? In what way are religious practices being transformed, reinforced or newly invented when transported to different places around the world? How are power relations negotiated within transnational religious networks? How are processes of coming and going linked to religious practices and discourses?

The book’s contributors provide rich ethnographic case studies on mobile evangelists, moving spirit mediums, and traveling believers. They analyze the relationship between global, regional, national, local and individual religious processes by centering on economic activities, media representations, or politics of emplacement.

Grounded firmly in cross-cultural comparison, this book contributes significantly to the literature on globalization, migration and transnational religion.

About the Author

Gertrud Hüwelmeier is a senior research fellow and lecturer of Social Anthropology at the Humboldt University Berlin.

Kristine Krause is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Goettingen.