The transforming into velocity of foreign migration, technological revolution in media and trip generate situations that supply possibilities for the mobility of African new spiritual pursuits (ANRMs) inside Africa and past. ANRMs are furthering their self-assertion and self-insertion into the spiritual landscapes of Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Their starting to be presence and public visibility appear to be extra robustly captured by means of the preferred media than through students of NRMs, historians of faith and social scientists, a bent that has most likely formed the general public psychological photograph and knowing of the phenomena. This e-book presents new theoretical and methodological insights for realizing and examining ANRMs and African-derived religions in diaspora. members concentrate on person teams and events drawn from Christian, Islamic, Jewish and African-derived spiritual events and discover their provenance and styles of emergence; their trust structures and formality practices; their public/civic roles; crew self-definition; public perceptions and responses; traits in the direction of integration/segregation; organisational networks; gender orientations and the results of interactions inside and among the teams and with the host societies. The ebook contains contributions from students and non secular practitioners, therefore providing new insights into how ANRMs may be greater outlined, approached, and interpreted through students, coverage makers, and media practitioners alike.
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