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Religion Crossing Boundaries Religion and the Social Order An Official Publication of the Association for the Sociology of Religion General Editor William H. Swatos, Jr. VOLUME 18 Religion Crossing Boundaries Transnational Religious and Social Dynamics in Africa and the New African Diaspora Edited by Afe Adogame and James V. Spickard LEIDEN • BOSTON 2010 This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Religion crossing boundaries : transnational religious and social dynamics in Africa and the new African diaspora / edited by Afe Adogame and James V. Spickard. p. cm. -- (Religion and the social order, ISSN 1061-5210 ; v. 18) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-90-04-18730-6 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Blacks--Africa--Religion. 2. Blacks--Religion. 3. African diaspora. 4. Globalization--Religious aspects. I. Adogame, Afeosemime U. (Afeosemime Unuose), 1964- II. Spickard, James V. III. Title. IV. Series. BL2400.R3685 2010 200.89'96--dc22 2010023735 ISSN 1061-5210 ISBN 978 90 04 18730 6 Copyright 2010 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Brill provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. CONTENTS Preface: Real Globalization: Everything is Local.................................. vii William H. Swatos, Jr. Introduction: Africa, The New African Diaspora, and Religious Transnationalism in a Global World.........................................................1 James V. Spickard and Afe Adogame TRANSNATIONAL DYNAMICS IN AFRICAN MIGRATION 1. The Visa God: Would-Be Migrants and the Instrumentalization of Religion ........................................................ 31 Ebenezer Obadare and Wale Adebanwi 2. A Nigerian Mother in Israel at Coney Island: Authority, Gender, and Translation in a Transnational Yoruba Religion ................................................................................... 49 Mei-Mei Sanford 3. Mobility and Belonging among Transnational Congolese Pentecostal Congregations: Modernity and the Emergence of Socioeconomic Differences....................................... 63 Géraldine Mossière 4. Mediating Spiritual Power: African Christianity, Transnationalism and the Media ...................................................... 87 J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu TRANSNATIONAL DYNAMICS WITHIN AFRICA 5. On the Inscrutability of the Ways of God: The Transnationalization of Pentecostalism on the West African Coast ........................................................................... 107 Joël Noret 6. Pentecostals Moving South-South: Brazilian and Ghanaian Transnationalism in Southern Africa ............................................. 123 Linda van de Kamp and Rijk van Dijk vi contents 7. “When you Make Sacrifice, No One is a Stranger”: Divination, Sacrifice and Identity among Translocals in the West African Urban Diaspora ............................................ 143 Laura S. Grillo 8. The Boundary-Crossing Influence of African Initiated Churches (AICs) on Youth in Emuhaya District, Western Kenya................................................................................. 165 Susan M. Kilonzo 9. Gospel without Borders: Gender Dynamics of Transnational Religious