%0 Book %A Lambertz, Peter %I [publisher not identified] %D 2017 %C New York, NY %G Undetermined %@ 9781785336706 %T Seekers and Things: Spiritual Movements and Aesthetic Difference in Kinshasa %U http://sozialundkulturanthropologie.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/berghahn-e-books/fid.berghahnbooksonline.com/title/LambertzSeekers %U http://www.berghahnbooks.com/covers/LambertzSeekers.jpg %7 1st edition %X Focusing on the intricate presence of a Japanese new religion (Sekai Kyûseikyô) in the densely populated and primarily Christian environment of Kinshasa (DR Congo), this ethnographic study offers a practitioner-orientated perspective to create a localised picture of religious globalization. Guided by an aesthetic approach to religion, the study moves beyond a focus limited to text and offers insights into the role of religious objects, spiritual technologies and aesthetic repertoires in the production and politics of difference. The boundaries between non-Christian religious minorities and the largely Christian public sphere involve fears and suspicion of ‘magic’ and ‘occult sciences’