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Routes and Rites to the City Mobility, Diversity and Religious Space in Johannesburg

This thought-provoking book is an exploration of the ways religion and diverse forms of mobility have shaped post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa. It analyses transnational and local migration in contemporary and historical perspective, along with movements of commodities, ideas, sounds and col...

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Other Authors: Wilhelm-Solomon, Matthew (Editor), Núñez, Lorena (Editor), Kankonde Bukasa, Peter (Editor), Malcomess, Bettina (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan 2016, 2016
Edition:1st ed. 2016
Series:Global Diversities
Subjects:
Religion And Sociology
Sociology, Urban
Ethnology
Ethnography
Sociology Of Religion
Urban Sociology
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Routes and Rites to the City: Introduction; Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon, Lorena Núñez Carrasco, Peter Kankonde Bukasa and Bettina Malcomess
  • Chapter 2. Valleys of Salt in the House of God: religious re-territorialisation and urban space; Bettina Malcomess and Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon
  • Chapter 3. Migration and the Sacred in Greater Rosettenville, Johannesburg; Peter Kankonde Bukasa and Lorena Núñez
  • Chapter 4. “It’s only the glass door, which breaks every day.” Layered politics of (dis)order at the Central Methodist Mission; Elina Hankela
  • Chapter 5. The Spirit of Hillbrow: Religion and the Ordering of Social Space in Inner City Johannesburg; Alex Wafer
  • Chapter 6. Remaking Religion, Rethinking Space: How South Asian and Somali Migrants are Transforming Ethnically Bound Notions of Hinduism and Islam in Mayfair and Fordsburgh; Zaheera Jinnah and Pragna Rugunanan
  • Chapter 7. Enchanted Suburbanism: Fantasy, Fear and Suburbia in Johannesburg; Obvious Katsaura
  • Chapter 8. Eyes to See and Ears to Hear: Negotiating Religion in Alexandra Township; Becca Hartman-Pickerill
  • Chapter 9. A man spoke in Joubert Park: The establishment of a transnational religious movement in South Africa; Bjørn Inge Sjødin
  • Chapter 10. Angels and Ancestors: Prophetic Diversity and Mobility in the City; Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon, Melekias Zulu & Eric Worby
  • Chapter 11. (Un)rest in peace: The (local) burial of foreign migrants as a contested process of place making; Khangelani Moyo, Lorena Núñez and Tsepang Leuta
  • Chapter 12. Conclusion: Towards New Routes; Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon, Bettina Malcomess, Peter Kankonde Bukasa, and Lorena Núñez Carrasco

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