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Studying Religion in Motion: A Networks Approach
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This essay offers some theoretical and methodological reflections on how the study of religion might look if we were to assume that complexity, connectivity, and fluidity are preponderant features of our present age, without ignoring the strong countervailing global logics of segregation, surveillance, and control. After characterizing transnational, global, and diasporic modalities of religion in motion, the essay explores the strengths and weaknesses of the analytical tools of flows, landscapes, and networks in the study of mobility. I argue that by placing power front and center, the concept of networks provides a necessary corrective to hydraulic models of flows and spatial metaphors of landscapes. These metaphors tend to overstate the pervasiveness of porous boundaries and movement or to privilege the hermeneutic and phenomenological dimensions of religious activity.
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“The concept of return was and remains, as explained above, fundamentally transtemporal (Vásquez 2008: 162), relating to both the past and the future.”
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“The concept of return was and remains, as explained above, fundamentally transtemporal (Vásquez 2008: 162), relating to both the past and the future.”
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Conceptualizing Simultaneity: A Transnational Social Field Perspective on Society
Levitt, P., & Schiller, N. G. (2004) · International Migration Review · doi:10.1111/j.1747-7379.2004.tb00227.x · Cited by 2,787
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- Authors
- Vásquez, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Florida (US)
- Corresponding author
- Vásquez, Manuel
- ORCID
- Vásquez, Manuel
- Venue
- Method & Theory in the Study of Religion
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2008
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 151-184
- ISSN
- 0943-3058 (ISSN-L)
- 1570-0682
- OpenAlex
- W2025979215
- Cited by
- 97
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 8 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 8
- FWCI
- 32.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Method & Theory in the Study of Religion (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Study and Philosophy of Religion
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Religion and Society Interactions
- Social Sciences › Demography › Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
- Keywords
- networks, transnational religion, flow, landscape, power, surveillance and control, porous borders, spatial metaphor
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