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Seekers and things : spiritual movements and aesthetic difference in Kinshasa / Peter Lambertz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Berghahn Books, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781785336706
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BL2470 .S445 2017
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Contents:
Introduction -- 'Light in the darkness' : towards a Congolese spiritual movement 'from Japan' -- Occult sciences : il-/legitimate secrecy and the infrapolitics of suspicion -- Blossoming boundaries : re-/production and contestation of Japanese flower practices -- Cleansing the city : ritual attachment to urban space -- Experiencing faith : crisis, miracles and spiritual healing -- (In) touch without contact : Johrei and the aura of the self -- Vibrating words : performative silence and the power of words -- Imported tradition : 'ancestor worship' as reverse orientalism -- Conclusion.
Subject: 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 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'.--Publisher's summary.
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Leipzig and Utrecht, 2015, under the title: Divisive matters : aesthetic difference and authority in a Congolese spiritual movement "from Japan".

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- 'Light in the darkness' : towards a Congolese spiritual movement 'from Japan' -- Occult sciences : il-/legitimate secrecy and the infrapolitics of suspicion -- Blossoming boundaries : re-/production and contestation of Japanese flower practices -- Cleansing the city : ritual attachment to urban space -- Experiencing faith : crisis, miracles and spiritual healing -- (In) touch without contact : Johrei and the aura of the self -- Vibrating words : performative silence and the power of words -- Imported tradition : 'ancestor worship' as reverse orientalism -- Conclusion.

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 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'.--Publisher's summary.

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