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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “dr david garbin”
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  • Ideologies and Infrastructures of Religious Urbanization in Africa

    Remaking the City

    Edited by Dr David Garbin, Simon Coleman, Gareth Millington ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place
    How do urbanization and development intersect with religious dynamics to shape contemporary African cityscapes? To answer this timely question, contributors from across Europe, North America and Africa are brought together to explore mega-cities including Lagos, Cape Town, Dar es Salaam and Kinshasa as powerful venues for the creation and implementation of religious models of urbanization and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Migration and the Global Landscapes of Religion

    Making Congolese Moral Worlds in Diaspora and Homeland

    by Dr David Garbin ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place
    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 ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Religion and the Global City

    Edited by Anna Strhan, Dr David Garbin ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place
    This is the first book to explore how religious movements and actors shape and are shaped by aspects of global city dynamics. Theoretically grounded and empirically informed, Religion and the Global City advances discussions in the field of urban religion, and establishes future research directions.David Garbin and Anna Strhan bring together a wealth of ethnographically rich and vivid case studies ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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    Theories and Cases

    by Enrique Dussel ...
    For the majority of cultures around the world, religion permeates and informs everyday rituals of survival and hope. But religion also has served as the foundation for national differences, racial conflicts, class exploitation, and gender discrimination. Indeed, religious spirituality, having been transformed by contemporary economic and political events, remains both empowering and controversial. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions

    Edited by Elias Kifon Bongmba ...
    Series Book 80 - Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
    The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions brings together a team of international scholars to create a single-volume resource on the religious beliefs and practices of the peoples in Africa.Offers broad coverage of issues relating to African religions, considering experiences in indigenous, Christian, and Islamic traditions across the continentContributors are from a variety of fields, ... Read more

    $186.00 USD

  • Faith in Schools

    Religion, Education, and American Evangelicals in East Africa

    by Amy Stambach ...
    American Evangelicals have long considered Africa a welcoming place for joining faith with social action, but their work overseas is often ambivalently received. Even among East African Christians who share missionaries' religious beliefs, understandings vary over the promises and pitfalls of American Evangelical involvement in public life and schools. In this first-hand account, Amy Stambach ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Engaging Globalization

    The Poor, Christian Mission, and Our Hyperconnected World

    by Amos Yong, Bryant Myers, Scott Sunquist ...
    Series series Mission in Global Community
    Christianity Today Book Award WinnerOutreach **Resource of the Year (Multicultural)ASM (American Society of Missiology) Book of the Year Award**Globalization is speeding up our world, extending our relationships globally and bringing us closer together in positive and not-so-positive ways. The church and many Christians, however, remain largely unaware of its seductive power, resulting in a ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Sexual Diversity in Africa

    Politics, Theory, and Citizenship

    by S.N. Nyeck, Marc Epprecht ...
    How does one address homophobia without threatening majority rule democracy and freedoms of speech and faith? How does one "Africanize" sexuality research, empirically and theoretically, in an environment that is not necessarily welcoming to African scholars?In Sexual Diversity in Africa, contributors critically engage with current debates about sexuality and gender identity, as well as with ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Hope and Uncertainty in Contemporary African Migration

    Edited by Nauja Kleist, Dorte Thorsen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Anthropology
    This volume examines the relationship between hope, mobility, and immobility in African migration. Through case studies set within and beyond the continent, it demonstrates that hope offers a unique prism for analyzing the social imaginaries and aspirations which underpin migration in situations of uncertainty, deepening inequality, and delimited access to global circuits of legal mobility.The ... Read more

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  • Pentecostalism and Development

    Churches, NGOs and Social Change in Africa

    Edited by D. Freeman ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Development was founded on the belief that religion was not important to development processes. The contributors call this assumption into question and explore the practical impacts of religion by looking at the developmental consequences of Pentecostal Christianity in Africa, and by contrasting Pentecostal and secular models of change. ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa

    by Adriaan van Klinken ...
    Series series African Arguments
    Religion is often seen as a conservative force in contemporary Africa. In particular, Christian beliefs and actors are usually depicted as driving the opposition to homosexuality and LGBTI rights in African societies. This book nuances that picture, by drawing attention to discourses emerging in Africa itself that engage with religion, specifically Christianity, in progressive and innovative ways- ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Public Face of African New Religious Movements in Diaspora

    Imagining the Religious ‘Other’

    Edited by Afe Adogame ...
    Series series Routledge Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements
    The growing pace of international migration, technological revolution in media and travel generate circumstances that provide opportunities for the mobility of African new religious movements (ANRMs) within Africa and beyond. ANRMs are furthering their self-assertion and self-insertion into the religious landscapes of Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Their growing presence and public visibility ... Read more

    $73.99 USD