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Studying Religion in Motion: A Networks Approach

Vásquez, Manuel·2008·Method & Theory in the Study of Religion
DOI 10.1163/157006808x283570
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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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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
DOI
10.1163/157006808x283570
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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