Butinage : the art of religious mobility / Yonatan N. Gez, [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gez, Yonatan N., author.

Droz, Yvan, author.

Rey, Jeanne, author.

Contributor:

University of Toronto Libraries, Funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian life.

Switzerland.

Brazil.

Ghana.

Kenya.

Genre:

Case studies.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Butinage

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-4875-3898-7

1-4875-4183-X

OCLC:

1224265182

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access