Palgrave Macmillan | Traditional Churches, Born Again Christianity, And Pentecostalism: Religious Mobility And Religious Repertoires In Urban Kenya (2018 EN)

Author: Yonatan N. Gez
Full Title: Traditional Churches, Born Again Christianity, And Pentecostalism: Religious Mobility And Religious Repertoires In Urban Kenya
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2018 edition (September 8, 2018)
Year: 2018
ISBN-13: 9783319906416 (978-3-319-90641-6), 9783319906409 (978-3-319-90640-9), 9783030080624 (978-3-030-08062-4)
ISBN-10: 3319906410, 3319906402, 3030080625
Pages: 358
Language: English
Genre: Religion: Christianity
File type: PDF (True)
Quality: 10/10
Price: 106.99 €


In Kenya's vibrant urban religious landscape, where Pentecostal and traditional churches of various orientations live side by side, religious identity tends to overflow a single institutional affiliation. While Kenya’s Christianity may offer modes of coping with the fragilities of urban life, it is subject to repeated crises and schisms, often fueled by rumors and accusations of hypocrisy. In order to understand the unfolding of Kenyans’ dynamic religious identities, and inspired by the omnipresent distinction between ‘religious membership’ and ‘church visits,’ Yonatan N. Gez considers the complementary relations between a center of religious affiliation and expansion towards secondary practices. Building on this basic distinction, the book develops a theoretical innovation in the form of the ‘religious repertoire’ model, which maps individuals’ religious identities in terms of three intertwined degrees of practice.


Overview:
✓ Uniquely explains the processes underlying religious choice-making in urban Kenya and the country's ongoing Christian transformations.
✓ Offers an innovative model that helps to systematize the concept of lived religion.
✓ Invites readers to rethink religious normativity, identifying mobile religious identity as normative.

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