Seekers and Things

Focusing on the intricate presence of a Japanese new religion (Sekai Kyûseikyô) in the densely populated and primarily Christian environment of Kinshasa (DR Congo), this ethnographic study offers a practitioner-orientated perspective to create a localized picture of religious globalization. Guided by an aesthetic approach to religion, the study moves beyond a focus limited to text and offers insights into the role of religious objects, spiritual technologies and aesthetic repertoires in the production and politics of difference. The boundaries between non-Christian religious minorities and the largely Christian public sphere involve fears and suspicion of "magic" and "occult sciences

Aesthetics · Art · Political science · Seekers · Sociology · Theology · African Studies and Ethnography · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Cognitive Science and Education Research · Computer Science · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · History of Computing Technologies · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · North African History and Literature · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Aesthetics, japanese · Africa · Congo (democratic republic) · Cults · Japanese Aesthetics · Religión · Religion · Religious life and customs · Sekai Kyūseikyō · Social life and customs · Temple messianique art de johrei (Congo)