The Public Face of African New Religious Movements in Diaspora: Imagining the Religious ‘Other’
| By: | Adogame, Afe, Dr |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781472420107 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781472420121 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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The growing pace of international migration, technological revolution in media and travel generate circumstances that provide opportunities for the mobility of African new religious movements (ANRMs) within Africa and beyond. ANRMs are furthering their self-assertion and self-insertion into the religious landscapes of Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Their growing presence and public visibility seem to be more robustly captured by the popular media than by scholars of NRMs, historians of religion and social scientists, a tendency that has probably shaped the public mental picture and understanding of the phenomena. This book provides new theoretical and methodological insights for understanding and interpreting ANRMs and African-derived religions in diaspora.
Contributors focus on individual groups and movements drawn from Christian, Islamic, Jewish and African-derived religious movements and explore their provenance and patterns of emergence