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Seekers and Things: Spiritual Movements and Aesthetic Difference in Kinshasa

Seekers and Things: Spiritual Movements and Aesthetic Difference in Kinshasa

Lambertz, Peter

Hardcover

Comparative ReligionAnthropologyGeneral Eastern Religions

ISBN10: 178533669X
ISBN13: 9781785336690
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Dec 29 2017
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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 by an aesthetic approach to religion, the study moves beyond a focus limited to text and offers insights into the role of religious objects, spiritual technologies and aesthetic repertoires in the production and politics of difference. The boundaries between non-Christian religious minorities and the largely Christian public sphere involve fears and suspicion of magic and occult sciences.

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