Cartografias de Globalização Religiosa: Imaginários, (I)Mobilidades, Materialidades e Assimetrias de Poder

Translated title of the contribution: Cartographies of Religious Globalization: Imaginaries, (I)Mobilities, Materialities and Power Asymmetries

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Abstract

In this article I turn my attention to three major ethnographic projects that I have conducted throughout my academic career. In almost three decades of research, I have looked at the circulation of different religions between different countries: firstly, Zen Buddhism flows between Japan and Brazil, then alternative medicine flows from Brazil and, finally, Pentecostalism flows between Australia and Brazil. Drawing on these studies, I reflect on how religion moves between nation states and what restricts or impedes its movement. I argue that religious flows are impacted by four major factors: 1) imaginaries constructed from power asymmetries between nation states; 2) religious infrastructures that intersect and influence each other (imagination, mobility, materialities/aesthetics and media); 3) flows that are multipolar and multidirectional; 4) flows that are multiscalar. Finally, I summarise my analytical approach to religious transnationalisation in this way: I work with a multipolar, multidirectional and multiscalar cartography of religious globalisation influenced by power inequalities.
Translated title of the contributionCartographies of Religious Globalization: Imaginaries, (I)Mobilities, Materialities and Power Asymmetries
Original languagePortuguese
Title of host publicationFluxos Religiosos Transnacionais
EditorsAri Pedro Oro
Place of PublicationBrazil
PublisherABA Publications
Pages15-31
Number of pages17
ISBN (Electronic)9786587289298
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024

Keywords

  • Power Asymmetries
  • Materialities
  • (I)Mobilities
  • Imaginaries
  • Religion
  • globalization

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