Transnational Religious Spaces : Religious Organizations and Interactions in Africa East Asia and Beyond This volume bringing together work by scholars from Europe East Asia North America and West Africa investigates transnational religious spaces in a comparative manner by juxtaposing East Asian and African examples. It highlights flows of ideas actors and organizations out of into or within a given continental space. These flows are patterned mainly by colonialism or migration. The book also examines cases where the transnational space in question encompasses both East Asia and Africa notably in the development of Japanese new religions in Africa. Most of the studies are located in the present; a few go back to the late nineteenth century. The volume is rounded off by Thomas Tweed’s systematic reflections on categories for the study of transnationalism; his chapter Flows and Dams critically weighs the metaphorical language we use to think speak and write about transnational religious spaces Frontmatter On the Series Contents 1 Introduction 2 Flows and Dams: Rethinking Categories for the Study of Transnationalism 3 From Mission Station to Tent Revival: Material Forms and Spatial Formats in Africa’s Missionary Encounter 4 Mission Spaces in German East Africa: Spatial Imaginations Implementations and Incongruities against the Backdrop of an Emerging Colonial Spatial Order 5 Redeeming Zululand: Placing Cultural Resonances in the Nazareth Baptist Church South Africa 6 From Redemption City to Christian Disneyland: The Unfolding of Transnational Religious Spaces 7 Transnational Evangelical Spaces in Muslim Urban Settings: The Presence and Place Making of African Christian Migrants in Morocco 8 Transforming Spatial Formats: Imagined Commonalities Imaginary Spaces and Spaces of Imagination 9 Transitioning the Vietnamese Ullambana Festival to Taiwan 10 Vietnamese Transnational Religions: The Cold War Polarities of Temples in “Little Hanois” and “Little Saigons” 11 Tiantai Transnationalism: Mobility Identity and Lineage Networks in Modern Chinese Buddhism 12 Of Ancestors and Others: Cultural Resonance from Japan among Spiritualists in Kinshasa 13 Japanese Spiritualities in Africa: From a Transnational Space to the Creation of a Local Lifestyle 14 American Dao and Global Interactions: Transnational Religious Networks in an English Speaking Yiguandao Congregation in Urban California 15 Generating Global Pure Lands: Renjian Buddhist Civic Engagement within and beyond the Chinese Diaspora Communities Worldwide List of Contributors Index