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Yonatan N. Gez is a Humboldt Fellow at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute and a research associate at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.Yvan Droz is a senior lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.Jeanne Rey is a professor at the University of Teacher Education in Fribourg and a research associate at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.Edio Soares is a Research Associate at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

• AcknowledgementsPart I:  Rethinking Religious Normativity1. Introduction: The Mobile Religious Practitioner1.1. The Mobile Practitioner1.2. The Butinage Metaphor1.3. The Structure of this Book2. Religious Mobility: Current Debates2.1. The Conceptual Limitations of Religious Conversion2.2. Religious Combinations and Syncretism2.3. ‘Lived Religion’ and Everyday Religion2.4. ConclusionPart II:  Case StudiesIntroduction to Part II: Methodology3. Neighborliness as a Driver for Mobility in Brazil3.1. The Circularity of Practice3.2. Territories and Bridges3.3. Butinage and Neighborliness3.4. Conclusion4. The Kenyan Case: Dynamism and Precariousness4.1. The Kenyan Religious Landscape4.2. Hierarchy in Practice: Members Versus Visitors4.3. Return Mobility4.4. A Precarious Religious Landscape: Scandals, Schisms, and Sects4.5. Conclusion5. Mobility Intertwined: Migration, Kinship, and Education in Ghana5.1. Religious Pluralism in Ghana5.2. Religious Trajectories: Intertwined Kinship, Migration, and Educational Strategies5.3. Additional Practices: Logics and Economies of Religious Mobility5.4. Conclusion6. Religion and Mobility in Switzerland: A Most Private Affair6.1. Uneasiness with Religion: ‘Institutionalists’ Versus ‘Seculars’6.2. Between Embrace and Suspicion: ‘Distanced’ Practitioners6.3. Eastern Religions, Animism, and New Age: ‘Alternatives’6.4. Butinage in Action6.5. Between Religious Heritage and Religion as a Taboo6.6. ConclusionPart III:  Between a Metaphor and a Model7. Between Bees and Flowers7.1. A Typology of Butineurs7.2. Territories7.3. From ‘Motivation’ to ‘Logic’7.4. Degrees of Practice and Their Complementarity7.5. Conclusion8. From Religious Mobility to Dynamic Religious Identities8.1. Familiarity and Familiarization8.2. Religious Repertoires8.3. Religious Identity in Context and Motion8.4. Conclusion 9. Conclusion: The Peripatetic PractitionerAnnex: Interview GuideBibliography