Philippe Bornet éd., Translocal Lives and Religion. Connections between Asia and Europe in the Late Modern World, Sheffield, Equinox, 2021, 318 p., ISBN 978-1-781-79582-8.

After the end of the twentieth century, inspired by methodologies stressing the global framework of interactions, scholars envisaged the modern world as a space irreversibly open wherein both scattered individuals and communities move along networks of visible and invisible, short- and long-term routes. Starting with the standpoint that both people and their religions move and make contact with each other, this book explores the lives of those « in-between » characters who witnessed the points of contact between different contexts within a global network of «situational interactions» in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The main objective of the volume, however, goes further, as the title suggests. It aims to provide a « translocal » approach to the study of religion in the late modern world between Europe and Asia and – one could add – the United States.