Migration and the Global Landscapes of Religion - Dr David Garbin

Migration and the Global Landscapes of Religion

Making Congolese Moral Worlds in Diaspora and Homeland

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Buch | Softcover
264 Seiten
2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-38711-9 (ISBN)
36,15 inkl. MwSt
This book draws upon case studies of the Congolese Christian diaspora in the UK and US and an ethnography of religious urbanization in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to explore the making of religious spaces and moral landscapes in an era of globalization.

Religion is a key aspect of the community, social and political life of Congolese migrants – many of whom have to address the predicaments of displacement, relocation and the status of being ‘a minority within a minority’, as Francophone black African migrants in English-speaking countries. The book demonstrates the role of religion in the production of moral worlds and the ways in which for Congolese Christians this process both results from and facilitates a process of ‘regrounding’ in the midst of ambivalent urban environments. Through a multi-sited ethnography the book also examines the impact of transnational religious practices on development and city-making in the homeland, in a context of increasing informalization and infrastructural deficit.

Drawing on extensive ethnographic data, David Garbin captures the nuances of a complex and changing social, political and religious landscape for Congolese migrants relying on the construction of moral worlds and revealing the role of a range of connections but also disconnections between diaspora and homeland across multiple scales. An essential resource for scholars and researchers interested in the intersections of religion, migration and urbanization in both Global North and Global South contexts.

David Garbin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent, UK. His research focuses on the interplay of migration, ethnicity, diaspora, space, religion and informal urbanism in a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Europe, North America, South Asia and Central Africa.

Introduction
1. Locating Congolese Christianities: Diaspora and homeland
contexts
2. ‘God stamps the visa first’: Spiritual infrastructures and the
paths of mobility and settlement
3. Modalities of presence: Territorializing and performing
diasporic religion
4. The ‘right to the city’ and beyond: Religion, race and diasporic
politics
5. 'Painful choices’: The moral economies of remittances
6. Developing and (re)moralizing the homeland: Narratives and interventions
7. Building the ‘alter-city’: Religious urbanization in the homeland
Conclusion: Moral worlds and the global landscapes of Congolese Christianities
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 20.2.2025
Reihe/Serie Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place
Zusatzinfo 10 bw illus
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
Religion / Theologie Christentum Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
ISBN-10 1-350-38711-8 / 1350387118
ISBN-13 978-1-350-38711-9 / 9781350387119
Zustand Neuware
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