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Titel:
Seekers and Things
:
Spiritual Movements and Aesthetic Difference in Kinshasa
Enthält:
Frontmatter
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 ‘Light in the Darkness’: Towards a Congolese Spiritual Movement ‘from Japan’
Chapter 2 Occult Sciences: (Il)legitimate Secrecy and the Infrapolitics of Suspicion
Chapter 3 Blossoming Boundaries: (Re-)production and Contestation of Japanese Flower Practices
Chapter 4 Cleansing the City: Touch, Rubbish and Citizenship
Chapter 5 Experiencing Faith: Crisis, Miracles and Spiritual Healing
Chapter 6 (In) Touch without Contact: Johrei and the Aura of the Self
Chapter 7 Vibrating Words: Performative Silence and the Power of Words
Chapter 8 Imported Tradition: ‘Ancestor Worship’ as Reverse Orientalism
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Beschreibung:
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"