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The Role of Spatial Practices and Locality in the Constituting of the Christian African Diaspora

The Role of Spatial Practices and Locality in the Constituting of the Christian African Diaspora © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI: 10.1163/187254509X12477244375012 African Diaspora 2 (2009) 125-130 brill.nl/afdi African Diaspora Th e Role of Spatial Practices and Locality in the Constituting of the Christian African Diaspora Kim Knibbe and Marten van der Meulen Introduction Many researchers have pointed out how world religions, in particular evan- gelical and Pentecostal Christianities, enable individual believers to more suc- cessfully navigate the spaces of modernity and translocalities (e.g. Van Dijk 1999). In contrast, we focused this issue on how African Christianities are themselves constituting spaces and become entangled in a particular locality of the African Diaspora, namely the Netherlands and in particular Amster- dam. How do individual believers relate to the place where they are, the places they want to go and the place they come from through Christianity? How does African Christianity create its own religioscapes (McAlister 1998) or sacroscapes (Tweed 2006)? Th e authors brought together in this special issue are all involved in larger research projects that look into the role of global Christianity and African migrants in Europe. Th ey write ‘fresh from the fi eld’ so to speak. Marten van der Meulen and Danielle Konings are involved in a project which http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png African Diaspora Brill

The Role of Spatial Practices and Locality in the Constituting of the Christian African Diaspora

van der Meulen, Marten; Knibbe, Kim
African Diaspora , Volume 2 (2): 125 – Jan 1, 2009
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI: 10.1163/187254509X12477244375012 African Diaspora 2 (2009) 125-130 brill.nl/afdi African Diaspora Th e Role of Spatial Practices and Locality in the Constituting of the Christian African Diaspora Kim Knibbe and Marten van der Meulen Introduction Many researchers have pointed out how world religions, in particular evan- gelical and Pentecostal Christianities, enable individual believers to more suc- cessfully navigate the spaces of modernity and translocalities (e.g. Van Dijk 1999). In contrast, we focused this issue on how African Christianities are themselves constituting spaces and become entangled in a particular locality of the African Diaspora, namely the Netherlands and in particular Amster- dam. How do individual believers relate to the place where they are, the places they want to go and the place they come from through Christianity? How does African Christianity create its own religioscapes (McAlister 1998) or sacroscapes (Tweed 2006)? Th e authors brought together in this special issue are all involved in larger research projects that look into the role of global Christianity and African migrants in Europe. Th ey write ‘fresh from the fi eld’ so to speak. Marten van der Meulen and Danielle Konings are involved in a project which

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