Full Description
This book approaches the concept of cosmopolitan sociability as a cultural or territorial rootedness that facilitates a simultaneous openness to shared human emotions, experiences, and aspirations.
Cosmopolitan Sociability critiques definitions of cosmopolitanism as a tolerance for cultural difference or a universalist morality that arise from contemporary experiences of mobility and globalization. Challenging these assumptions, the book explores the degree to which a 'cosmopolitan dimension' can be practised within particular religious communities, diasporic ties, or gendered migrant identities in different parts of the world. A wide variety of expert contributors offer rich ethnographic insights into the interplay of social interactions and cosmopolitan sociability. In this way the book contributes significantly to ethnic and migration studies, global anthropology, social theory, and religious and cultural studies.
Cosmopolitan Sociability was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Contents
Selected Contents: 1. Defining Cosmopolitan Sociability in a Transnational Age - An Introduction Nina Glick Schiller, Tsypylma Darieva and Sandra Gruner-Domic 2. Cosmopolitan Charismatics? Transnational Ways of Belonging and Cosmopolitan Moments in the Religious Practice of New Mission Churches Kristine Krause 3. Socialist Cosmopolitanism Meets Global Pentecostalism: Charismatic Christianity among Vietnamese Migrants after the Fall of the Berlin Wall Gertrud Hüwelmeier 4. National, Transnational or Cosmopolitan Heroine? Virgin Mary's Apparitions in Contemporary Europe Agnieszka Halemba 5. Transnational Lifestyles as a New Form of Cosmopolitan Social Identification? Latin American Women in German Urban Spaces Sandra Gruner-Domic 6. Rethinking Homecoming. Diasporic Cosmopolitanism in Post-Soviet Armenia Tsypylma Darieva
