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Seekers and Things

Spiritual Movements and Aesthetic Difference in Kinshasa

  • Hardback
  • 336 pages
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • 15.8 x 22.7 x 2.3 cm

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Focusing on the growing popularity of a new Japanese religion (Sekai Kyuseikyo) in the densely populated and primarily Christian environment of Kinshasa (DR Congo), this ethnographic study offers a practitioner-orientated perspective to create a localised 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'.

  • Title

    Seekers and Things

  • Author

    Peter Lambertz

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Berghahn Books

  • Published

    December 2017

  • Weight

    545g

  • Page Count

    336

  • Dimensions

    15.8 x 22.7 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781785336690

  • ISBN-10

    178533669X

  • Eden Code

    4531886

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