The Sacred and the City: Modernity, Religion, and the Urban Form in Central Africa

Abstract

All over the world, new religious movements have become a highly visible part of the urban landscape. Taking Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, as a starting point this chapter analyzes new manifestations of the religious and the sacred in urban space, as well as the ways in which urban cultures and infrastructures mediate diverse practices, discourses, and affects in the various domains of the sacred. By investigating the alignments, collusions and collisions between the city and the sacred, this chapter intends to bridge between the anthropology of religion and an anthropology of the urban form and imagination.

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