Transnational Transcendence Essays on Religion and Globalization Edited by Thomas J. Csordas
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Introduction: modalities of transnational transcendence / Thomas J. Csordas -- Missionization in the postcolonial world: a view from Brazil and elsewhere / Ot{acute}avio Velho -- Is the trans- in transnational the trans- in transcendent? On alterity and the sacred in the age of globalization / Joel Robbins -- Global religion and the reenchantment of the world: the case of the Catholic charismatic renewal / Thomas J. Csordas -- Veiled missionaries and embattled Christians in colonial Sudan / Janice Boddy -- Beyond integration and recognition: diasporic constructions of Alivi Muslim identity between Germany and Turkey / Esra Ozy{uml}urek -- The burning: finitude and the political-theological imagination of illegal migration / Stefania Pandolfo -- Trajectories, frontiers, and reparations in the expansion of Santo Daime to Europe / Alberto Groisman -- The Orisha Atlantic: historicizing the roots of a global religion / Peter F. Cohen -- The many who dance in me: Afro-Atlantic ontology and the problem with "transnationalism" / J. Lorand Matory -- Global breathing: religious utopias in India and China / Peter van der Veer -- The return path: anthropology of a Western yogi / Kathinka Fr{ostrok}ystad -- The global reach of gods and the travels of Korean shamans / Laurel Kendall
ix, 338 p. :ill. ;23 cm.