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Routes and Rites to the City

Mobility, Diversity and Religious Space in Johannesburg

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Editors:
  1. Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon

    1. African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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  2. Lorena Núñez

    1. Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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  3. Peter Kankonde Bukasa

    1. Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany

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  4. Bettina Malcomess

    1. Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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  • Offers a fascinating and timely study of a ‘global city’
  • Engages with the post-apartheid complexity of Johannesburg
  • Makes an original contribution to the literature on urban diversity studies, religion and mobility

Part of the book series: Global Diversities (GLODIV)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Routes and Rites to the City: Introduction

    • Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon, Lorena Núñez, Peter Kankonde, Bettina Malcomess
    Pages 1-30

  3. Valleys of Salt in the House of God: Religious Re-territorialisation and Urban Space

    • Bettina Malcomess, Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon
    Pages 31-60

  4. Migration and the Sacred in Greater Rosettenville, Johannesburg

    • Peter Kankonde, Lorena Núñez
    Pages 61-89

  5. “It’s Only the Glass Door, Which Breaks Every Day.” Layered Politics of (Dis)Order at the Central Methodist Mission

    • Elina Hankela
    Pages 91-115

  6. The Spirit of Hillbrow: Religion and the Ordering of Social Space in Inner-City Johannesburg

    • Alex Wafer
    Pages 117-136

  7. Remaking Religion, Rethinking Space: How South Asian and Somali Migrants Are Transforming Ethnically Bound Notions of Hinduism and Islam in Mayfair and Fordsburg

    • Zaheera Jinnah, Pragna Rugunanan
    Pages 137-161

  8. Enchanted Suburbanism: Fantasy, Fear and Suburbia in Johannesburg

    • Obvious Katsaura
    Pages 163-189

  9. Eyes to See and Ears to Hear: Negotiating Religion in Alexandra Township

    • Becca Hartman-Pickerill
    Pages 191-213

  10. A Man Spoke in Joubert Park: The Establishment of a Transnational Religious Movement in South Africa

    • Bjørn Inge Sjødin
    Pages 215-237

  11. Angels and Ancestors: Prophetic Diversity and Mobility in the City

    • Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon, Melekias Zulu, Eric Worby
    Pages 239-271

  12. (Un)Rest in Peace: The (Local) Burial of Foreign Migrants as a Contested Process of Place Making

    • Khangelani Moyo, Lorena Núñez, Tsepang Leuta
    Pages 273-305

  13. Conclusion: Towards New Routes

    • Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon, Bettina Malcomess, Peter Kankonde, Lorena Núñez
    Pages 307-318

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 319-329
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About this book

This thought-provoking book is an exploration of the ways religion and diverse forms of mobility have shaped post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa. It analyses transnational and local migration in contemporary and historical perspective, along with movements of commodities, ideas, sounds and colours within the city. It re-theorizes urban ‘super-diversity’ as a plurality of religious, ethnic, national and racial groups but also as the diverse processes through which religion produces urban space. The authors argue that while religion facilitates movement, belonging and aspiration in the city, it is complicit in establishing new forms of enclosure, moral order and spatial and gendered control. Multi-authored and interdisciplinary, this edited collection deals with a wide variety of sites and religions, including Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Judaism. Its original reading of post-apartheid Johannesburg advances global debates around religion, urbanization, migration and diversity,and will appeal to students and scholars working in these fields.

Reviews

“Focusing on the particular global character of post-apartheid Johannesburg, this engrossing collection shows how the mobile bodies, practices, materialities, discourses and images that enact religion and spirituality are also fundamentally constitutive of urban social space.” (Mary Hancock, author, “The Politics of Heritage from Madras to Chennai”)

“This book magisterially unpacks the movements and traces of religious practice in Johannesburg's urban space. With its incredible attention to both the visible and the invisible, the evanescent and the more permanent features of urban religious life, it represents a masterpiece of urban scholarship. Through marvellous ethnographies an unseen city emerges in front of us. Highly recommended to students of urban studies and religion alike.” (Marian Burchardt, author of “Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics and Modernity in South Africa”, and researcher at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany)

Editors and Affiliations

  • African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon

  • Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Lorena Núñez

  • Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany

    Peter Kankonde Bukasa

  • Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Bettina Malcomess

About the editors

Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon is a researcher and writer at the African Centre for Migration and Society, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa.


Lorena Núñez is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa.


Peter Kankonde Bukasa is a doctoral researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa, and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany.


Bettina Malcomess is Lecturer in Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa. She is also an artist, writer and curator.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Routes and Rites to the City

  • Book Subtitle: Mobility, Diversity and Religious Space in Johannesburg

  • Editors: Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon, Lorena Núñez, Peter Kankonde Bukasa, Bettina Malcomess

  • Series Title: Global Diversities

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58890-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58889-0Published: 07 February 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95469-8Published: 15 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58890-6Published: 20 January 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2662-2580

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-2599

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 329

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Ethnography, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)

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