Projektnummer

0061107

Zusammenfassung

This study mobilises the concept of transnational religious urbanism to engage an investigation of the urban consequences of the flow of religious ideas, faiths, practices, goods, spirits, people, and institutions between selected African cities. Harnessing religious and urbanist understandings of transnationalism, I coin the concept of networked religiocities to capture the idea that cities are involved in circuits of religious exchange that (re)-shape their socio-economic and spatial ecologies. This comes against a backdrop of the observation that West African and Southern African ci...