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Seekers and Things : Spiritual Movements and Aesthetic Difference in Kinshasa /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York; Oxford :
Berghahn Books,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 'Light in the Darkness': Towards a Congolese Spiritual Movement 'from Japan'
- Chapter 2 Occult Sciences: (Il)legitimate Secrecy and the Infrapolitics of Suspicion
- Chapter 3 Blossoming Boundaries: (Re-)production and Contestation of Japanese Flower Practices
- Chapter 4 Cleansing the City: Touch, Rubbish and Citizenship
- Chapter 5 Experiencing Faith: Crisis, Miracles and Spiritual Healing
- Chapter 6 (In) Touch without Contact: Johrei and the Aura of the Self
- Chapter 7 Vibrating Words: Performative Silence and the Power of Words
- Chapter 8 Imported Tradition: 'Ancestor Worship' as Reverse Orientalism
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index