Routes and Rites to the City
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"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)
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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.
