Migration and the Global Landscapes of Religion
Making Congolese Moral Worlds in Diaspora and Homeland
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 20 February 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350387119
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 229x150x13 mm
- Weight 420 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 bw illus 681
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Long description:
This book draws upon case studies of the Congolese Christian diaspora in the UK and US and an ethnography of religious urbanization in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to explore the making of religious spaces and moral landscapes in an era of globalization.
Religion is a key aspect of the community, social and political life of Congolese migrants - many of whom have to address the predicaments of displacement, relocation and the status of being 'a minority within a minority', as Francophone black African migrants in English-speaking countries. The book demonstrates the role of religion in the production of moral worlds and the ways in which for Congolese Christians this process both results from and facilitates a process of 'regrounding' in the midst of ambivalent urban environments. Through a multi-sited ethnography the book also examines the impact of transnational religious practices on development and city-making in the homeland, in a context of increasing informalization and infrastructural deficit.
Drawing on extensive ethnographic data, David Garbin captures the nuances of a complex and changing social, political and religious landscape for Congolese migrants relying on the construction of moral worlds and revealing the role of a range of connections but also disconnections between diaspora and homeland across multiple scales. An essential resource for scholars and researchers interested in the intersections of religion, migration and urbanization in both Global North and Global South contexts.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Locating Congolese Christianities: Diaspora and homeland
contexts
2. 'God stamps the visa first': Spiritual infrastructures and the
paths of mobility and settlement
3. Modalities of presence: Territorializing and performing
diasporic religion
4. The 'right to the city' and beyond: Religion, race and diasporic
politics
5. 'Painful choices': The moral economies of remittances
6. Developing and (re)moralizing the homeland: Narratives and interventions
7. Building the 'alter-city': Religious urbanization in the homeland
Conclusion: Moral worlds and the global landscapes of Congolese Christianities
Bibliography
Index
Migration and the Global Landscapes of Religion: Making Congolese Moral Worlds in Diaspora and Homeland
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