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Transnational Transcendence : Essays on Religion and Globalization.

This innovative collection examines the transnational movements, effects, and transformations of religion in the contemporary world, offering a fresh perspective on the interrelation between globalization and religion. Transnational Transcendence challenges some widely accepted ideas about this rela...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Csordas, Thomas J (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: modalities of transnational transcendence / Thomas J. Csordas
  • Missionization in the postcolonial world: a view from Brazil and elsewhere / Otávio Velho
  • Is the trans- in transnational the trans- in transcendent? On alterity and the sacred in the age of globalization / Joel Robbins
  • Global religion and the reenchantment of the world: the case of the Catholic charismatic renewal / Thomas J. Csordas
  • Veiled missionaries and embattled Christians in colonial Sudan / Janice Boddy
  • Beyond integration and recognition: diasporic constructions of Alivi Muslim identity between Germany and Turkey / Esra Ozyürek
  • The burning: finitude and the political-theological imagination of illegal migration / Stefania Pandolfo
  • Trajectories, frontiers, and reparations in the expansion of Santo Daime to Europe / Alberto Groisman
  • The Orisha Atlantic: historicizing the roots of a global religion / Peter F. Cohen
  • The many who dance in me: Afro-Atlantic ontology and the problem with "transnationalism" / J. Lorand Matory
  • Global breathing: religious utopias in India and China / Peter van der Veer
  • The return path: anthropology of a Western yogi / Kathinka Frøystad
  • The global reach of gods and the travels of Korean shamans / Laurel Kendall.