Traditional Churches, Born Again Christianity, and Pentecostalism Religious Mobility and Religious Repertoires in Urban Kenya /

• Main Author: Gez, Yonatan N. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Christianity and Renewal - Interdisciplinary Studies
• Subjects: Christianity.; Ethnology-Africa.; Religion and sociology.; African Culture.; Sociology of Religion.

In Kenya's vibrant urban religious landscape, where Pentecostal and traditional churches of various orientations live side by side, religious identity tends to overflow a single institutional affiliation. While Kenya's Christianity may offer modes of coping with the fragilities of urban li...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Theoretical approaches to religious mobility
• 3. The Kenyan religious landscape
• 4. The unfolding of religious repertoires in Kenya: negotiating territory and questions of trust
• 5. The unfolding of religious repertoires in Kenya: Balancing repertoire arrangements
• 6. Religious identity as a system in action
• 7. Example interviewees
• 8. Conclusion.