| Titre | Maitreya's Garden in the Township: Transnational Religious Spaces of Yiguandao Activists in Urban South Africa | |
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| Auteur | Nikolas Broy | |
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Revue | China perspectives |
| Numéro | no 2019/4 (Re)imagining Chinese Spaces in Urban Africa. | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Special feature |
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| Page | 27-36 | |
| Résumé anglais |
This paper seeks to explore the spaces created by practitioners of the Taiwanese-Chinese religious movement Yiguandao 一貫道 (“Way of Pervading Unity”) in urban South Africa. Drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork conducted in Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Cape Town in late 2017 as well as on published Yiguandao materials, this contribution analyses how these spaces are created, maintained, and charged with meaning. It investigates the uses of these spaces as well as how and why various actors engage in them. By proposing a preliminary typology that is based on the location, function, and mobility of these spaces, this contribution argues that Yiguandao religious spaces represent more intense arenas of transcultural interaction than most other – and predominantly economic – Chinese spaces in Africa. Source : Éditeur (via OpenEdition Journals) |
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| Article en ligne | http://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/9662 |
