Public Face of African New Religious Movements in Diaspora
Subtitle: Imagining the Religious 'Other'
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781472420107
Subjects: Cults, africa; Africans
Description: This book provides new theoretical and methodological insights for understanding and interpreting ANRMs and African-derived religions in diaspora. Contributors focus on groups and movements drawn from Christian, Islamic, Jewish and African-derived religious movements and explore their provenance and patterns of emergence, their belief systems and ritual practices. The book offers new insights into how ANRMs can be better defined, approached, and interpreted by scholars, policy makers and media practitioners alike.