Building Noah's Ark for migrants, refugees, and religious communities
What is a Refugee Religion? : Exile, Exodus and Emigration in the Vietnamese Diaspora / Janet Hoskins -- Religious Imaginary as an Alternative Social and Moral Order : Karen Buddhism across the Thai-Burma Border / Mikael Gravers -- Refugee and Religious Narratives : The Conversion of North Koreans f...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
New York [u.a.]
Palgrave Macmillan
2015
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
| Edition: | 1. ed. |
| Series/Journal: | Contemporary anthropology of religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Refugee
/ Humanitarian aid
/ International comparison
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Church work with refugees Case studies B Emigration and immigration Religious aspects Case studies B Refugees Religious life Case studies B Humanitarianism Religious aspects Case studies B Conference program |
| Summary: | What is a Refugee Religion? : Exile, Exodus and Emigration in the Vietnamese Diaspora / Janet Hoskins -- Religious Imaginary as an Alternative Social and Moral Order : Karen Buddhism across the Thai-Burma Border / Mikael Gravers -- Refugee and Religious Narratives : The Conversion of North Koreans from Refugees to God's Warriors / Jin-Heon Jung -- Ritual Practice, Material Culture and Wellbeing in Displacement : ka-thow-bòw in a Karenni Refugee Camp in Thailand / Sandra Dudley -- Secular and Religious Sanctuaries : Interfaces of Humanitarianism and Self-Government of Karen Refugee-Migrants in Thai Burmese Border Spaces / Alexander Horstmann -- Conflicting Missions? : The Politics of Evangelical Humanitarianism in the Sahrawi and Palestinian Protracted Refugee Situations / Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh -- Humanitarian Adhocracy, Transnational New Apostolic Missions, and Evangelical Anti-Dependency in a Haitian Refugee Camp / Elizabeth McAlister -- Palestinian Steadfastness as a Mission / Leonardo Schiocchet -- Conversion and Community among Iu Mien Refugee Immigrants in the United States / Hjorleifur Jonsson -- Faith in Ethnicity : The Homeland Ties and Diasporic Formation of Vietnamese Caodaists in the U.S. and Cambodia / Thien-Huong Ninh |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index "This volume is a product of the international workshop the editors organized at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI MMG) in Göttingen, Germany, on October 6-7. 2011." - (acknowledgments) |
| ISBN: | 1137501537 |