Combining ethnographic and historical research conducted in Angola, Portugal, and the United Kingdom, A Prophetic Trajectory tells the story of Simão Toko, the founder and leader of one of the most important contemporary Angolan religious movements. The book explains the historical, ethnic, spiritual, and identity transformations observed within the movement, and debates the politics of remembrance and heritage left behind after Toko’s passing in 1984. Ultimately, it questions the categories of prophetism and charisma, as well as the intersections between mobility, memory, and belonging in the Atlantic Lusophone sphere.
Inhoudsopgave
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: prophetic territories and temporalities
PART I: ITINERARIES
Chapter 1. Trajectories: a prophetic biography, part I
Chapter 2. Trajectories: a prophetic biography, part II
PART II: HERITAGES
Chapter 3. Transmission: word, action and mediation
Chapter 4. Trepidation: spirits, memories and disputed heritage
Chapter 5. Transcendence: Tokoist diasporas
Conclusion
Primary sources
Bibliography
Index
Over de auteur
Ruy Llera Blanes is an anthropologist and currently Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bergen, Norway, and Associate Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He has published articles in several international journals, and co-edited Encounters of Body and Soul in Contemporary Religiosity (2011, Berghahn, with Anna Fedele) and The Social Life of Spirits (2013, Univ. Chicago Press, with Diana Espírito Santo). He is currently co-editor of the journal Advances in Research: Religion and Society, published by Berghahn.
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