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Traveling Spirits

Migrants, Markets and Mobilities
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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.

Author Biography:

Gertrud Huwelmeier is a senior research fellow and lecturer of Social Anthropology at the Humboldt University Berlin. Kristine Krause is a doctoral student in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and a junior research fellow at the Humboldt University Berlin.
Release date NZ
August 15th, 2011
Audiences
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Contributors
  • Edited by Gertrud Huwelmeier
  • Edited by Kristine Krause
Illustrations
2 Tables, black and white; 5 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 7 Illustrations, black and white
Pages
218
ISBN-13
9780415808002
Product ID
13030250

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