Moral circumscriptions: involuntary mobility, diaspora and ideological configurations in the Angolan Tokoist church
This article proposes to debate the relationship between mobility, faith and belonging, exploring the idea of “moral circumscriptions” to describe how one particular African Christian movement, the Tokoist church, experienced a historical process of territorial transcendence, from a regional, ethnic...
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| Format: | article |
| Language: | eng |
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10451/7392 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/7392 |
| Summary: | This article proposes to debate the relationship between mobility, faith and belonging, exploring the idea of “moral circumscriptions” to describe how one particular African Christian movement, the Tokoist church, experienced a historical process of territorial transcendence, from a regional, ethnic movement to a global venture, responding with a complex set of ideologies attached to ideas of place. The article highlights the – often tense and conflictual – political and ideological processes of identitary construction developed within the church. |
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