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The public face of African new religious movements in diaspora : imagining the religious other / edited by Afe Adogame.

Contributor(s): Adogame, Afeosemime U. (Afeosemime Unuose), 1964- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Ashgate Inform series on minority religions and spiritual movements: Publisher: Farnham Surrey, England ; Burlington : Ashgate, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: ix, 289 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472420107 (hardcover : alk. paper); 1472420101 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Africa -- Religion | Cults -- Africa | African diaspora | Africans -- Migrations | Pentecostalism -- AfricaDDC classification: 200.89/96 LOC classification: BL2400 | .P83 2014Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: the public face of African new religious movements in diaspora / Afe Adogame -- The discourse about 'Africa' in religious communities in Brazil: how Africa becomes the ultimate source of authenticity in Afro-Brazilian religions / Bettina E. Schmidt -- Irrecha: a traditional Oromo religious ritual goes global / Asebe Regassa and Meron Zeleke -- Self-representation by Black Majority Christianity in Britain / Abel Ugba -- The transnational dynamics of Black Jews in France / Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot and Cécile Coquet-Mokoko -- 'Take over Asia for God!': the public face of African Pentecostal churches in China / Heidi Østbø Haugen -- Uncovering an alternative story: examining the religious and social lives of Afro-Caribbean youth in London and New York City / Janice McLean-Farrell -- Juggling multiple identities to overcome minority status: young Congolese Pentecostals in Montreal (Quebec) / Géraldine Mossiére -- 'Living by the spirit': African Christian communities in Sweden / Anne Kubai -- 'Penetrating the unseen': the role of religion and spiritual practices in the Senegalese boat migration process / Henrietta M. Nyamnjoh -- 'The Coca-Cola of churches arrives': Nigeria's Redeemed Christian Church of God in Brazil / Laura Premack -- Nigerian Pentecostals in Britain: towards prosperity or consumerism? / Israel Olofinjana -- Public perception of witchcraft accusations, stereotyping and child abuse: a case study of Britain's Black Majority Churches / Babatunde Adedibu -- The strangers in our midst: issues of misunderstanding between African migrant churches in Germany and the mainstream German churches / Garnet Parris.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the public face of African new religious movements in diaspora / Afe Adogame -- The discourse about 'Africa' in religious communities in Brazil: how Africa becomes the ultimate source of authenticity in Afro-Brazilian religions / Bettina E. Schmidt -- Irrecha: a traditional Oromo religious ritual goes global / Asebe Regassa and Meron Zeleke -- Self-representation by Black Majority Christianity in Britain / Abel Ugba -- The transnational dynamics of Black Jews in France / Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot and Cécile Coquet-Mokoko -- 'Take over Asia for God!': the public face of African Pentecostal churches in China / Heidi Østbø Haugen -- Uncovering an alternative story: examining the religious and social lives of Afro-Caribbean youth in London and New York City / Janice McLean-Farrell -- Juggling multiple identities to overcome minority status: young Congolese Pentecostals in Montreal (Quebec) / Géraldine Mossiére -- 'Living by the spirit': African Christian communities in Sweden / Anne Kubai -- 'Penetrating the unseen': the role of religion and spiritual practices in the Senegalese boat migration process / Henrietta M. Nyamnjoh -- 'The Coca-Cola of churches arrives': Nigeria's Redeemed Christian Church of God in Brazil / Laura Premack -- Nigerian Pentecostals in Britain: towards prosperity or consumerism? / Israel Olofinjana -- Public perception of witchcraft accusations, stereotyping and child abuse: a case study of Britain's Black Majority Churches / Babatunde Adedibu -- The strangers in our midst: issues of misunderstanding between African migrant churches in Germany and the mainstream German churches / Garnet Parris.

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