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 contribution | Cartographies of Religious Globalization: Imaginaries, (I)Mobilities, Materialities and Power Asymmetries |
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Original language | Portuguese |
Title of host publication | Fluxos Religiosos Transnacionais |
Editors | Ari Pedro Oro |
Place of Publication | Brazil |
Publisher | ABA Publications |
Pages | 15-31 |
Number of pages | 17 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9786587289298 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2024 |
Keywords
- Power Asymmetries
- Materialities
- (I)Mobilities
- Imaginaries
- Religion
- globalization