Acknowledgements
Part I: Rethinking Religious Normativity
1. Introduction: The Mobile Religious Practitioner
1.1. The Mobile Practitioner
1.2. The Butinage Metaphor
1.3. The Structure of this Book
2. Religious Mobility: Current Debates
2.1. The Conceptual Limitations of Religious Conversion
2.2. Religious Combinations and Syncretism
2.3. ‘Lived Religion’ and Everyday Religion
2.4. Conclusion
Part II: Case Studies
Introduction to Part II: Methodology
3. Neighborliness as a Driver for Mobility in Brazil
3.1. The Circularity of Practice
3.2. Territories and Bridges
3.3. Butinage and Neighborliness
3.4. Conclusion
4. The Kenyan Case: Dynamism and Precariousness
4.1. The Kenyan Religious Landscape
4.2. Hierarchy in Practice: Members Versus Visitors
4.3. Return Mobility
4.4. A Precarious Religious Landscape: Scandals, Schisms, and Sects
4.5. Conclusion
5. Mobility Intertwined: Migration, Kinship, and Education in Ghana
5.1. Religious Pluralism in Ghana
5.2. Religious Trajectories: Intertwined Kinship, Migration, and Educational Strategies
5.3. Additional Practices: Logics and Economies of Religious Mobility
5.4. Conclusion
6. Religion and Mobility in Switzerland: A Most Private Affair
6.1. Uneasiness with Religion: ‘Institutionalists’ Versus ‘Seculars’
6.2. Between Embrace and Suspicion: ‘Distanced’ Practitioners
6.3. Eastern Religions, Animism, and New Age: ‘Alternatives’
6.4. Butinage in Action
6.5. Between Religious Heritage and Religion as a Taboo
6.6. Conclusion
Part III: Between a Metaphor and a Model
7. Between Bees and Flowers
7.1. A Typology of Butineurs
7.2. Territories
7.3. From ‘Motivation’ to ‘Logic’
7.4. Degrees of Practice and Their Complementarity
7.5. Conclusion
8. From Religious Mobility to Dynamic Religious Identities
8.1. Familiarity and Familiarization
8.2. Religious Repertoires
8.3. Religious Identity in Context and Motion
8.4. Conclusion
9. Conclusion: The Peripatetic Practitioner
Annex: Interview Guide
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