ISBN:
978-1-4780-0626-8
,
978-1-4780-0549-0
,
978-1-4780-0716-6 / (e-book)
Language:
English
Pages:
311 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
DDC:
200.96091732
Keywords:
Afrika, Subsahara Stadt
;
Stadtforschung, ethnologische
;
Alltag
;
Religion
;
Christentum
;
Pentecost
;
Diaspora
;
Ethnopsychologie
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
The contributors to Affective Trajectories examine the mutual and highly complex entwinements between religion and affect in urban Africa in the early twenty-first century. Drawing on ethnographic research throughout the continent and in African diasporic communities abroad, they trace the myriad ways religious ideas, practices, and materialities interact with affect to configure life in urban spaces. Whether examining the affective force of the built urban environment or how religious practices contribute to new forms of attachment, identification, and place-making, they illustrate the force of affect as it is shaped by temporality and spatiality in the religious lives of individuals and communities. Among other topics, they explore Masowe Apostolic Christianity in relation to experiences of displacement in Harare, Zimbabwe; Muslim identity, belonging, and the global ummah in Ghana; crime, emotions, and conversion to neo-Pentecostalism in Cape Town; and spiritual cleansing in a Congolese branch of a Japanese religious movement. In so doing, the contributors demonstrate how the social and material living conditions of African cities generate diverse affective forms of religious experiences in ways that foster both localized and transnational paths of emotional knowledge. (Buchumschlag)
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Affective trajectories in religious African cityscapes/ Hansjörg Dilger, Marian Burchardt, Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon, and Astrid Bochow -- Part 1. Affective Infrastructures -- 1. Affective regenerations: intimacy, cleansing, and mournin in and around Johannesburg's dark buildings / Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon -- 2. Emotions as affective trajectories of belief in Mwari (God) amoung Moasowe Apostles in urban Zimbabwe / Isabel Mukonyora -- 3. The sites of divine encounter: affective religious spaces and sensational practices in Christ embassy ans NASFAT in the cita of Abuja / Murtala Ibrahim -- 4. Religious sophistication in African Pencostism: an urban spirit? / Rijk van Dijk -- Part II. Emotion on the move -- 5. Affective routes of healing: navigating paths of recovery in urban and uural West Africa / Isabelle L. Lange -- 6. The cleansing touch: spirits, atmospheres, and attouchment in a "Japanese" spiritual movement in Kinshasa / Peter Lambertz -- 7. Learning how to feel: emotional repertoires of Nigerian and Congolese Pentecostal pastors in the diaspora / Rafael Cazarin and Marian Burchardt -- Part III. Embodiment, subjectivity, and belonging -- 8. "Those who pray together": religious practice, affect, and dissent among Muslims in Asante (Ghana) / Benedikt Pontzen -- 9. Longing for connection: Christian education and emerging urban lifestyles in Botswana / Astrid Bochow -- 10. "Here, here is a place where I can cry": religion in a context of displacement: Congolese churches in Kampala / Alessandro Gusman -- 11. Men of love? Affective conversions on township streets / Hans Reihling -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 263-297"This volume was developed from selected papers from the conference 'Spirit and Sentiment: Affective Trajectories of Religious Being in Urban Africa,' which was held at Freie Universität Berlin on May 28-30, 2015." (Acknowledgements)
Permalink
