'Transnational Religious Spaces: Religious Organizations and Interactions in Africa, East Asia, and Beyond' edited by Philip Clart and Adam Jones

• Main Author: WOODS, Orlando
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: Religion
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research_all/22; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23969393211006400
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The movement and settlement of religion have animated scholarship for a long time now and have yielded a substantial body of work that explores (1) how religion intersects with migration, (post)colonialism, and modernity, (2) the articulations of transnationalism, and (3) the formations of diasporic consciousness. Philip Clart and Adam Jones’s edited volume makes a compelling contribution to the field. It offers a novel geographic focus on Africa and East Asia, as well as a historically integrative study that ranges from late nineteenth-century practices of mission to more contemporary religious movements. While Africa and East Asia remain persistently understudied in scholarship on transnational religion, the thirteen empirical chapters that compose the volume highlight the wide-ranging value that comes with exploring groups and practices that define religious ontologies and practices from beyond the “normative” West. By eking out the “dialectics of the global,” which this series promises, the contributions offer new interpretations of religion in/and the world.