David Garbin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent, UK. His research focuses on the interplay of migration, ethnicity, diaspora, space, religion and informal urbanism in a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Europe, North America, South Asia and Central Africa.

Drawing on original ethnographies in the UK, US and Africa, this book immerses readers in a Congolese moral world with which few will be familiar. David Garbin offers an engaging analysis of local religious place-making, complex transnational interconnections and migrants' enduring diasporic commitment to their homeland in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

• Introduction1. Locating Congolese Christianities: Diaspora and homelandcontexts 2. ‘God stamps the visa first’: Spiritual infrastructures and thepaths of mobility and settlement 3. Modalities of presence: Territorializing and performingdiasporic religion 4. The ‘right to the city’ and beyond: Religion, race and diasporicpolitics 5. 'Painful choices’: The moral economies of remittances 6. Developing and (re)moralizing the homeland: Narratives and interventions 7. Building the ‘alter-city’: Religious urbanization in the homeland Conclusion: Moral worlds and the global landscapes of Congolese ChristianitiesBibliography Index

David Garbin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent, UK. His research focuses on the interplay of migration, ethnicity, diaspora, space, religion and informal urbanism in a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Europe, North America, South Asia and Central Africa.

Drawing on original ethnographies in the UK, US and Africa, this book immerses readers in a Congolese moral world with which few will be familiar. David Garbin offers an engaging analysis of local religious place-making, complex transnational interconnections and migrants' enduring diasporic commitment to their homeland in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

• Introduction1. Locating Congolese Christianities: Diaspora and homelandcontexts 2. ‘God stamps the visa first’: Spiritual infrastructures and thepaths of mobility and settlement 3. Modalities of presence: Territorializing and performingdiasporic religion 4. The ‘right to the city’ and beyond: Religion, race and diasporicpolitics 5. 'Painful choices’: The moral economies of remittances 6. Developing and (re)moralizing the homeland: Narratives and interventions 7. Building the ‘alter-city’: Religious urbanization in the homeland Conclusion: Moral worlds and the global landscapes of Congolese ChristianitiesBibliography Index