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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]

Table of 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.

Author/Creator:

Gez, Yonatan N. , author

Contributors:

Droz, Yvan , author

Rey, Jeanne, 1980- , author

Soares, Edio , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Butinage: the art of religious mobility [by Gez, Y.N.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Butinage [by Gez, Y.N.] (Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2021 — ISBN 1487508808; ISBN 9781487508807; OCLC Number 1223013664)

Subjects:

Christian life — Brazil — Case studies

Christian life — Kenya — Case studies

Christian life — Ghana — Case studies

Christian life — Switzerland — Case studies

Brazil — Religious life and customs — Case studies

Kenya — Religious life and customs — Case studies

Ghana — Religious life and customs — Case studies

Switzerland — Religious life and customs — Case studies

Christian life

Brazil

Ghana

Kenya

Switzerland

Genres:

Case studies

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

BV4501.3 .G499 2021eb

ISBNs:

9781487538996 (EPUB)
1487538995
1487538987
9781487541835
148754183X
9781487538989 (electronic bk.)
9781487508807 (hardcover) [Invalid]
1487508808 (hardcover) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1224265182