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Author Gez, Yonatan N., author.

Title Butinage : the art of religious mobility / Yonatan N. Gez, Yvan Droz, Jeanne Rey, and Edio Soares
Published Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2021

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Contents Part I. Introduction: Rethinking Religious Normativity -- The Mobile Religious Practitioner -- Religious Mobility: Current Debates -- Neighborliness as a Driver for Mobility in Brazil -- The Kenyan Case: Dynamism and Precariousness -- Mobility Intertwined: Migration, Kinship, and Education in Ghana -- Religion and Mobility in Switzerland: A Most Private Affair -- Between Bees and Flowers -- From Religious Mobility to Dynamic Religious Identities -- Conclusion: The Peripatetic Practitioner
Summary "Based on comparative ethnographic research in four countries and three continents, Butinage: The Art of Religious Mobility explores the notion of "religious butinage" as a conceptual framework intended to shed light on the dynamics of everyday religious practice. Derived from the French word butiner, which refers to the foraging activity of bees and other pollinating insects, this term is employed by the authors metaphorically to refer to the "to-ing and fro-ing" of believers between religious institutions. Focused on urban, predominantly Christian settings in Brazil, Kenya, Ghana, and Switzerland, Butinage examines commonalities and differences across the four case studies and identifies religious mobility as located at the meeting points between religious-institutional rules and narratives, local social norms, and individual agency and practice. Drawing on Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone academic traditions, this monograph is dedicated to a dialogue between ethnographic findings and theoretical ideas, and explores how we may rethink common conceptions of religious normativity."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Christian life -- Brazil -- Case studies
Christian life -- Kenya -- Case studies
Christian life -- Ghana -- Case studies
Christian life -- Switzerland -- Case studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
Christian life
SUBJECT Brazil -- Religious life and customs -- Case studies
Kenya -- Religious life and customs -- Case studies
Ghana -- Religious life and customs -- Case studies
Switzerland -- Religious life and customs -- Case studies
Subject Brazil
Ghana
Kenya
Switzerland
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Droz, Yvan, author.
Rey, Jeanne, 1980- author.
Soares, Edio, author.
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