The African Christian Diaspora
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The African Christian Diaspora

New Currents and Emerging Trends in World Christianity

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The African Christian Diaspora

New Currents and Emerging Trends in World Christianity

About this book

The last three decades have witnessed a rapid proliferation of African Christian communities, particularly in Europe and North American diaspora, thus resulting in the remapping of old religious landscapes. This migratory trend and development bring to the fore the crucial role, functions and import of religious symbolic systems in new geo-cultural contexts. The trans-national linkages between African-led churches in the countries of origin (Africa) and the "host" societies are assuming increasing importance for African immigrants. The links and networks that are established and maintained between these contexts are of immense religious, cultural, economic, political and social importance. This suggests how African Christianities can be understood within processes of religious transnationalism and African modernity. Based on extensive religious ethnography undertaken by the author among African Christian communities in Europe, the USA and Africa in the last 17 years, this book maps and describes the incipience and consolidation of new brands of African Christianities in diaspora. The book demonstrates how African Christianities are negotiating and assimilating notions of the global while maintaining their local identities.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. HalfTitle
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Preface
  9. 1 Trajectories of African migration
  10. 2 Narratives of African migration
  11. 3 Situating the local scene(s)
  12. 4 Historiography of new African Christianities in diaspora
  13. 5 A phenomenology of African Christian communities in diaspora
  14. 6 African Christianities as social, cultural and spiritual capital
  15. 7 Negotiating identity, citizenship and power
  16. 8 Globalization, media and transnationalism
  17. 9 Reverse mission
  18. 10 The politics of networking
  19. Notes
  20. Select bibliography
  21. Index