Adogame and Spickard, eds. “Religion Crossing Boundaries”

Contents:

Preface: Real Globalization: Everything is Local ……………………………. vii

William H. Swatos, Jr.

Introduction: Africa, The New African Diaspora, and Religious

Transnationalism in a Global World …………………………………………………1

James V. Spickard and Afe Adogame

TRANSNATIONAL DYNAMICS IN AFRICAN MIGRATION

1. The Visa God: Would-Be Migrants and the

Instrumentalization of Religion ……………………………………………….. 31

Ebenezer Obadare and Wale Adebanwi

2. A Nigerian Mother in Israel at Coney Island: Authority,

Gender, and Translation in a Transnational

Yoruba Religion ……………………………………………………………………….. 49

Mei-Mei Sanford

3. Mobility and Belonging among Transnational Congolese

Pentecostal Congregations: Modernity and the

Emergence of Socioeconomic Differences ………………………………… 63

Géraldine Mossière

4. Mediating Spiritual Power: African Christianity,

Transnationalism and the Media ……………………………………………… 87

J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu

TRANSNATIONAL DYNAMICS WITHIN AFRICA

5. On the Inscrutability of the Ways of God: The

Transnationalization of Pentecostalism on the

West African Coast ………………………………………………………………… 107

Joël Noret

6. Pentecostals Moving South-South: Brazilian and Ghanaian

Transnationalism in Southern Africa ……………………………………… 123