Maitreya’s garden in the township: transnational religious spaces of Yiguandao activists in urban South Africa
This paper seeks to explore the spaces created by practitioners of the Taiwanese-Chinese religious movement Yiguandao 一 貫 道 (“Way of Pervading Unity”) in urban South Africa. Drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork conducted in Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Cape Town in late 2017 as well as on publ...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2019
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China perspectives
Year: 2019, Issue: 4, Pages: 27-36 |
| Further subjects: | B
International policy
B Religious practice B Transnational policy B Political process B Temple B Africa B Taiwan B Religion B Chinese people B Culture B Religious movement |
| Summary: | This paper seeks to explore the spaces created by practitioners of the Taiwanese-Chinese religious movement Yiguandao 一 貫 道 (“Way of Pervading Unity”) in urban South Africa. Drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork conducted in Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Cape Town in late 2017 as well as on published Yiguandao materials, this contribution analyses how these spaces are created, maintained, and charged with meaning. It investigates the uses of these spaces as well as how and why various actors engage in them. By proposing a preliminary typology that is based on the location, function, and mobility of these spaces, this contribution argues that Yiguandao religious spaces represent more intense arenas of transcultural interaction than most other – and predominantly economic – Chinese spaces in Africa. (China Perspect/GIGA) |
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| Item Description: | Teil von Special Feature: (Re)imagining Chinese spaces in Urban Africa. Dialogues across the built and the lived |
| ISSN: | 2070-3449 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: China perspectives
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