Policing Christianity in Cameroon, Nigeria, and Angola: Spiritual Incorporation as Therapy and Threat in Africa
This article investigates the work of Christian churches in Cameroon, Nigeria, and Angola among refugee, migrant, and displaced persons communities and their support of two principal undertakings that allow these groups to reconceptualize belonging and reconstitute communal identities: (1) transnati...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2023
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Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2023, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 27-56 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Cameroon
/ Nigeria
/ Angola
/ Pentecostal churches
/ Immigration policy
/ Ecclesiastical social work
/ Fellow feeling
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CG Christianity and Politics CH Christianity and Society KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KDG Free church NCC Social ethics SA Church law; state-church law |
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| Summary: | This article investigates the work of Christian churches in Cameroon, Nigeria, and Angola among refugee, migrant, and displaced persons communities and their support of two principal undertakings that allow these groups to reconceptualize belonging and reconstitute communal identities: (1) transnational family building and (2) therapeutic forms of emotional expression and communion. This article also demonstrates how the governments of Cameroon, Nigeria, and Angola perceive such noncitizen groups' innovative communal practices as inherently destabilizing to fragile national identities, and how state security forces work to dismantle ties of affinity and restrain or apprehend religious authorities in order to preserve social and political boundaries among increasingly diverse and composite societies. |
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| ISSN: | 2165-5413 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Africana religions
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