We would like to acknowledge the participation of the following reviewers in the production of this issue of Alternation. In this regard, we sought not only to emphasize the agency, but also to show the vulnerability of researchers.
Acknowledgement
In the final article, Trygve Wyller reflects on how a theological commitment to centering the lived experience of migrants in Christian social practice has produced surprising new epistemological and methodological outcomes for the researcher. We see this volume as a small contribution to the field and which we hope will stimulate further deliberations regarding religion and migration research in Africa and the African diaspora.
Federico Settler Sociology of Religion School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics University of KwaZulu-Natal settler@ukzn.ac.za. Mari Haugaa Engh Postdoctoral Fellow in the College of Humanities at the University of KwaZulu-Natal mari.engh@gmail.com.
Religion or Ruse? African Jamaican Spiritual Practices and Police Deception in Canada
Danielle N. Boaz
Abstract
Introduction
If Khan had further unpacked these Canadian cases, I think the central role of the Caribbean community in starting these cases would have become even more apparent. I also argue that when one examines the work done by other scholars on another important case involving Afro-Caribbean religion in the United States, the Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v.
Miami Cubans and the Santeria Case
The fourth significant element of this controversy is that there are undertones of the City Council and Hialeah residents' condemnation of Santeria found in the district court's decision upholding the legislation barring animal sacrifice. Perhaps most explicitly, the court asserted that 'the practice was not, and is not today, socially accepted by the majority of the Cuban population' (District Court 1989:1478).
Jamaican Canadians and the Obeah Cases in Canada
As the police gathered little other evidence against the defendants, Carty's testimony was central to the prosecution's case (Queen v Rowe 2006:13). First, they gained access to the defendants through a family member who both believed in the power of these African-derived rituals and a client of the Obeah practitioner.
Conclusion
Ti African diaspora idiay USA ken Canada idi rugi ti maika-21 a siglo. Sakripisio ti Ayup ken Narelihiosuan a Wayawaya: Iglesia ti Espiritu Santo v. Lawrence, Kansas: Unibersidad a Pagmalditan ti Kansas.
Court Cases
Media Articles
The Materiality of Pentecostal Religious
Healing: The Case of Cameroonian Migrants in Cape Town
Henrietta M. Nyamnjoh
But in the face of such accelerated mobilities, the globalization of Pentecostalism has emerged as an export to the rest of the world. It is in this regard that I exploit the intersections of migration-precarity-religion-agency to understand migrants' health challenges in the host country and the agency that operates health-seeking pathways.
Biblical Pathways to Divine Healing
Here are some in my car [shows the researcher], I always have some in the car. Like Sam, Cathy believes in the power of anointing oil and holy water and believes that they are a 'must have' in the car and can be used when going on a long drive or meeting unknown people.
Zora’s Story
The powers attributed to the various objects are immense, and Zora's faith is driven by the faith she has in the objects. Zora rationalizes the healing of her leg by using anointing oil and holy water, which she regularly sprinkles on the affected area, while Cathy believes that staying accident-free is due to the oil she smears on her tires.
Healing and Impartation through the ‘Words of Knowledge’
Cathy's self-questioning indicates an emotional/psychological response to marginalization and the challenges and demands of family in the home country, which is experienced by many migrants. In a way, divine healing is achieved by practicing love and the need to lay down one's life for others.
Funding acknowledgement
A guide to balancing the spiritual, mental, emotional and physical aspects of life. https://www.amazon.com/Four-Levels-Healing-Balancing-. On Prayers for the Sick and Healing: Experiences in Christian Churches in China and African Immigrant Congregations in Germany.
Because I know God answers prayers’: The Role of Religion in African - Scandinavian
Mari Haugaa Engh
For many migrants, religious practice forms an important part of the transnational activities they participate in on a daily basis (Levitt 2007). My attention to the role of religious beliefs, practices and communities arose as a result of the significant importance and value participants attached to them.
The Role of Religion in Transnational Migration
Religious movements can function as supposed "global communities" in which individuals from different contexts participate in "increasingly homogenized forms of worship and organization" (Levitt 2003: 848). He states that "in the religious life of African immigrants, prayers for nkrataa, 'papers' (that is, the relevant residency documents) are ranked immediately after healing in the requests at prayer services" (Asamoah-Gyadu 2010:90).
Theoretical Framework
In this article I add to this conceptualization of locality by arguing that migrants 'localize' both through interpersonal networks and the acquisition of knowledge, and through their belief in and commitment to an extraordinary power. From the perspective of migrants, belief in a transcendental power and religious practices are considered as important as the material and interpersonal forms of locality.
Research Methods and Empirical Material
Mobile athletes, such as the female soccer players introduced in this article, are a type of highly skilled migrant worker who invest significantly in creating and maintaining international professional careers. In this sense, the transnational migration of athletes is related to that of other highly skilled migrant workers and culture workers.
Analysis and Discussion
This has been done to protect the anonymity of the participants as well as the football clubs involved in the research project. Pentecost Outside Pentecostalism: A Study of the Development of Charismatic Renewal in the Mainline Churches of Ghana.
Resilience of Somali Migrants: Religion and Spirituality among Migrants in Johannesburg
Jennifer R.F. Sigamoney
Communities of Somali migrants have also emerged further in northern and southern Africa and the Middle East (Al-Sharmani 2010). Finally, I analyze and discuss the narratives of religion and resilience as they emerged from the interviews with Somali migrants.
Social, Cultural, Religious and Spiritual Context
The resilience is evident in the adaptation of different gender roles in the family (Shaffer 2012). However, the presence of South African Indian Muslims in Mayfair encouraged Somali migrants to settle in the area due to their shared religious I,dentities (Jinnah 2010).
Findings and Discussion
New migrants entering South Africa are aware that there is a large Somali migrant population living in the Fordsburg/Mayfair area. There are gender-related aspects of resilience among the Somali migrants that can be identified in the empirical material.
Church as Hostile, Host or Home: Perspectives on the Experiences of African Migrants in
South Africa
Buhle Mpofu
Sacks contrasts the implications for living in the hotel, the guest house and being a resident of the City and emphasizes that cooperation between the townspeople and the newcomers is the key to development. Based on this model, this article uses these parables to highlight the differences between Church as hostile, host and home for migrants within the new congregations of the Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa (UPCSA) in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Literature Review
Hospitality regarding the role of the churches in providing care to migrants has attracted the attention of scholars in the field of religion/theology, with the focus on migration evolving from two different perspectives. Within the changing situations of our contemporary times, it also offers an alternative hermeneutic for reading and interpreting the Bible in the light of the experience of migration.
Research Methodology
Bosch believed that the 21st century would see developments that could drive the church to seek a new paradigm - the. He cites the factors behind the emergence of this new paradigm as Western governments losing dominance in global governance, the challenge of unjust structures of oppression and exploitation, how Western technology and the development agenda are now treated with suspicion and how European theologies no longer cannot claim. universal superiority given that freedom of religion is considered a human right.
Analysis of Empirical Data
This hostility of the church towards migrants was also reflected in the sub-themes; compassion fatigue [members of congregations who are clearly tired of showing compassion to migrants], migrants'. As a result, the church was talked about in ways where it was not clear who or what made up the church.
Discussion
This understanding of the church is consistent with its mission and church identity, as it unites people to a vision. The presence of migrants reveals the missionary weaknesses of the selected congregations and especially their understanding of the church and the role of the local church in the context of migration.
Concluding Remarks
Mission Among Immigrants, Mission to Immigrants: The Church's Mission to a Promised Land, A Dangerous Journey. From Crisis to Kairos: The Mission of the Church in the Time of HIV/AIDS, Refugees and Poverty.
Contestations of Self and Other in Researching Religion, Gender and Health among Migrant
Delipher Manda
It is in this connection that below we hope to illustrate how the university's ethics committee's assumptions about migrant women as particularly vulnerable prejudiced their assessment of risk, both in relation to the participants and the researcher. I believed that as a migrant woman I was well placed to enjoy the participants' trust and be an empathetic ally.
A Complex Intersection: Gender, Migration, Religion and Health
Of the congregation members, I planned to interview six migrant women between the ages of 20 and 45 who were assumed to be sexually active and who had been active members of the church. The selection criteria and context of the study reflected the focus of the study – narratives of sexual and reproductive choices among religious migrant women.
Contestations over Ethics and Patronage in Researching Gender and Migration
Thus, we considered the following considerations in addition to the ethical requirements of the university. For me this meant that my epistemological position to affirm the agency of migrant women was not acceptable to the University Ethics Committee.
Discussion: Empowering Methodologies
In our examination of the Ethics Committee's questions, we noted not only the infantization of Black women researchers as early stage researchers, but also the representation of migrant women as perpetual victims, thus rendering patronage regimes that regulate Black women's access and mobility in the academy, be maintained. Beliefs about unmet needs and seeking treatment for infertility among migrant Ghanaian women in the Netherlands.
Decolonial Counter-conducts? Traces of Decentering Migrant Ecclesiologies
Trygve Wyller
Instead of the postcolonial, an invention of French philosophy, the decolonial is focused on resistance. The latter move necessarily requires "the statement of the researcher himself and his presence in his thinking" (Mignolo & Walsh 2018: 28).
The Nisha Narratives
Her point of departure is what she calls the 'spatial politics of xenophobia', referring to the wave of xenophobic violence in 2008. Finally, walking embodies a new power structure between the three walking figures, Nisha, Reverend Yannick and I – the white professor.
Decentering Ecclesiology as Counter-conduct
The foundation is that Nisha takes the lead and directs in the middle of the sensory everyday walk. This important office, two steps ahead of the pastor and the professor, embodies traces of a decentring ecclesiology.
Decentering Counter-conducts and Traces of a Decolonial Theology
She is also a licensed attorney in the state of Florida and the state of North Carolina. His current research and writing focuses on religion and migration research, and the place of the body in the study of religion.
