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Migration and the Global Landscapes of Religion Making Congolese Moral Worlds in Diaspora and Homeland

Garbin, David
Innbundet / 2023 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781474283373
Publisert
2023-07-27
Utgiver
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Bloomsbury Academic
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Innbundet
Antall sider
264

Forfatter
Garbin, David

Biographical note

David Garbin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent, UK. His research focuses on the interplay of migration, ethnicity, diaspora, space, religion and informal urbanism in a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Europe, North America, South Asia and Central Africa.

Migration and the Global Landscapes of Religion Making Congolese Moral Worlds in Diaspora and Homeland

Garbin, David
Innbundet / 2023 / Engelsk
Garbin, David
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Drawing on original ethnographies in the UK, US and Africa, this book immerses readers in a Congolese moral world with which few will be familiar. David Garbin offers an engaging analysis of local religious place-making, complex transnational interconnections and migrants' enduring diasporic commitment to their homeland in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Kim Knott, Professor Emerita, Lancaster University, UK and author of The Location of Religion: A Spatial Analysis (2005).

A beautifully crafted and revealing account of religion and lives cast in displacement. This is an important and much needed exploration of the ways in which religious place-making not only reveals the ambivalence of life in diaspora for Congolese migrants but also impacts on the urban landscape of the homeland.

Caroline Knowles, Global Professorial Fellow, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

David Garbin writes about Christian plurality, moral ambivalence and social complexity with the utmost clarity and passion. This is a deeply ethnographic yet impressively multi-sited book about the frustrations and ambitions of urban Congolese in their homeland and in diaspora. Garbin provides a truly important contribution to our understandings of intersections between religion, territorialization and scale as he documents the lives of actors working hard to establish presences across Francophone and Anglophone worlds of movement and dwelling.

Simon Coleman, Chancellor Jackman Professor, University of Toronto, Canada and author of Powers of Pilgrimage: Religion in a World of Movement (2022).

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This book is a creative study of the existing complex religious landscape and its deployment across settings in both diaspora and homeland contexts. The reader will discover how the process of globalization develops while being driven by religious activities and migration networks.

Fohle Lygunda li-M, Associate Professor of Missiology, North-West University, South Africa

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.
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Introduction1. 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 ChristianitiesBibliography Index
Les mer
Drawing on original ethnographies in the UK, US and Africa, this book immerses readers in a Congolese moral world with which few will be familiar. David Garbin offers an engaging analysis of local religious place-making, complex transnational interconnections and migrants' enduring diasporic commitment to their homeland in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Les mer
A theoretically insightful analysis of diasporic religion through an innovative study of the interplay of transnational migration, religious (de)territorialisation and modes of belonging in different spatial and urban settings.
Les mer
The first monograph on Francophone African diaspora, which provides a comparison between 3 major religious groups across 3 different sites - UK, US, and Congo
Religions, spiritualities and mysticisms are deeply implicated in processes of place-making. These include political and geopolitical spaces, local and national spaces, urban spaces, global and virtual spaces, contested spaces, spaces of performance, spaces of memory and spaces of confinement. At the leading edge of theoretical, methodological, and interdisciplinary innovation in the study of religion, Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place brings together and gives shape to the study of such processes.These places are not defined simply by the material or the physical but also by the sensual and the psychological, by the ways in which spaces are gendered, classified, stratified, moved through, seen, touched, heard, interpreted and occupied. Places are constituted through embodied practices that direct critical and analytical attention to the spatial production of insides, outsides, bodies, landscapes, cities, sovereignties, publics and interiorities.
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Drawing on original ethnographies in the UK, US and Africa, this book immerses readers in a Congolese moral world with which few will be familiar. David Garbin offers an engaging analysis of local religious place-making, complex transnational interconnections and migrants' enduring diasporic commitment to their homeland in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Kim Knott, Professor Emerita, Lancaster University, UK and author of The Location of Religion: A Spatial Analysis (2005).

A beautifully crafted and revealing account of religion and lives cast in displacement. This is an important and much needed exploration of the ways in which religious place-making not only reveals the ambivalence of life in diaspora for Congolese migrants but also impacts on the urban landscape of the homeland.

Caroline Knowles, Global Professorial Fellow, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

David Garbin writes about Christian plurality, moral ambivalence and social complexity with the utmost clarity and passion. This is a deeply ethnographic yet impressively multi-sited book about the frustrations and ambitions of urban Congolese in their homeland and in diaspora. Garbin provides a truly important contribution to our understandings of intersections between religion, territorialization and scale as he documents the lives of actors working hard to establish presences across Francophone and Anglophone worlds of movement and dwelling.

Simon Coleman, Chancellor Jackman Professor, University of Toronto, Canada and author of Powers of Pilgrimage: Religion in a World of Movement (2022).

Se alle

This book is a creative study of the existing complex religious landscape and its deployment across settings in both diaspora and homeland contexts. The reader will discover how the process of globalization develops while being driven by religious activities and migration networks.

Fohle Lygunda li-M, Associate Professor of Missiology, North-West University, South Africa

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.
Les mer
Introduction1. 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 ChristianitiesBibliography Index
Les mer
Drawing on original ethnographies in the UK, US and Africa, this book immerses readers in a Congolese moral world with which few will be familiar. David Garbin offers an engaging analysis of local religious place-making, complex transnational interconnections and migrants' enduring diasporic commitment to their homeland in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Les mer
A theoretically insightful analysis of diasporic religion through an innovative study of the interplay of transnational migration, religious (de)territorialisation and modes of belonging in different spatial and urban settings.
Les mer
The first monograph on Francophone African diaspora, which provides a comparison between 3 major religious groups across 3 different sites - UK, US, and Congo
Religions, spiritualities and mysticisms are deeply implicated in processes of place-making. These include political and geopolitical spaces, local and national spaces, urban spaces, global and virtual spaces, contested spaces, spaces of performance, spaces of memory and spaces of confinement. At the leading edge of theoretical, methodological, and interdisciplinary innovation in the study of religion, Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place brings together and gives shape to the study of such processes.These places are not defined simply by the material or the physical but also by the sensual and the psychological, by the ways in which spaces are gendered, classified, stratified, moved through, seen, touched, heard, interpreted and occupied. Places are constituted through embodied practices that direct critical and analytical attention to the spatial production of insides, outsides, bodies, landscapes, cities, sovereignties, publics and interiorities.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781474283373
Publisert
2023-07-27
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
264

Forfatter
Garbin, David

Biographical note

David Garbin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent, UK. His research focuses on the interplay of migration, ethnicity, diaspora, space, religion and informal urbanism in a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Europe, North America, South Asia and Central Africa.

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