Routes and Rites to the City

1. Routes and Rites to the City: Introduction
Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon, Lorena Núñez, Peter Kankonde, Bettina Malcomess

2. Valleys of Salt in the House of God: Religious Re-territorialisation and Urban Space
Bettina Malcomess, Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon

3. Migration and the Sacred in Greater Rosettenville, Johannesburg
Peter Kankonde, Lorena Núñez

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

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

6. 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

7. Enchanted Suburbanism: Fantasy, Fear and Suburbia in Johannesburg
Obvious Katsaura

8. Eyes to See and Ears to Hear: Negotiating Religion in Alexandra Township
Becca Hartman-Pickerill

9. A Man Spoke in Joubert Park: The Establishment of a Transnational Religious Movement in South Africa
Bjørn Inge Sjødin

10. Angels and Ancestors: Prophetic Diversity and Mobility in the City
Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon, Melekias Zulu, Eric Worby

11. (Un)Rest in Peace: The (Local) Burial of Foreign Migrants as a Contested Process of Place Making
Khangelani Moyo, Lorena Núñez, Tsepang Leuta

12. Conclusion: Towards New Routes
Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon, Bettina Malcomess, Peter Kankonde, Lorena Núñez

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Urban Studies/Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Ethnography, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)