Traveling Spirits: Migrants, Markets and Mobilities
New York and London: Routledge, 2010.
First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/8". xi, 218pp. Bound in blue printed paper over boards, with white lettering to upper board and spine. Mild bumping to extremities of binding. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A very presentable first edition of this study of religious networks across borders, part of Routledge's Studies in Anthropology series.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
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. (Publisher). Very good +. Item #17381
ISBN: 9780415998789
Price: $25.00