| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 332 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction : refugees and religion / Peter van der Veer -- Part I. Politics of religious plurality in Europe. War, forced migration, and the politics of religious diversity / Wayne P. te Brake ; German refugees and refugees in Germany / Peter van der Veer -- Part II. People on the move from Vietnam. Victims of atheist persecution : transnational Catholic solidarity and refugee protection in Cold War Asia / Phi Ván Nguyen ; The Virgin Mary became Asian : diasporic nationalism among Vietnamese Catholic refugees in the United States and Germany / Thien-Huong Ninh ; Refugees in the land of Awes : Vietnamese arrivals and departures / Janet Alison Hoskins ; In search of a Vietnamese Buddhist space in Germany / Tam T. Ngo and Nga T. Mai -- Part III. People on the move in and from Africa. "Are we an elected people?" Religion and the everyday experience of young Congolese refugees in Kampala / Alessandro Gusman ; "Conquering new territory for Jesus?' : The transience and local presence of African Pentecostal migrants in Morocco / Johara Berriane ; Ritual space and religion : young West African Muslims in Berlin, Germany / Abdoulaye Sounaye -- Part IV. Political spaces of reception. Texts, language and religion in the making of Syriac Orthodox communities in Europe / Heleen Murre-van den Berg ; Between hope and fear : migrant 'illegality' and camp life in Assam, India / Salah Punathil ; Accommodating religious diversity : micro-politics of spatial separation in German refugee accommodation centers / Alexander Kenneth-Nagel ; Conversion through destitution : religion, law and doubt in the UK asylum system / William Wheeler -- Mobilizing theory : concluding thoughts / Birgit Meyer |
| Summary |
"This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Utrecht University and the Max Planck Society. Understanding religion from a material and corporeal angle, this book addresses the ways in which refugees practice their religions and convert or develop new faiths. It also evaluates how secular institutions in Europe frame and determine what is classified as religion according to the law, and delineate the limits of religious authority, religious practice, and religious speech. The question of nationalism and migration has been shaping the political landscape in Europe for more than a decade, resulting in a nationalist upsurge. This volume places the current trajectories of people from Asia and Africa who flee from conditions such as oppression and conflict, and who are seeking refuge in Europe in a broader historical and comparative perspective. In so doing, it addresses past experiences in Europe with the role of religion in both producing and accommodating refugees, in the aftermath of the Peace of Westphalia, World War II, and in the context of the Cold War."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-319) and index |
| Notes |
"This volume emerged from two workshops, one in December 2017 and a second in September 2018, both at Utrecht University"--Preface, page x |
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Online resource, viewed June 24, 2021 |
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Refugees -- Religious life -- Europe
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Refugees -- Religious life -- Africa
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Refugees -- Religious life -- United States
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Refugees -- Religious life -- India -- Assam
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Refugees -- Europe
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Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects
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Refugees
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Religion
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Social conditions
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Europe -- Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects
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Europe -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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Europe -- Religion -- 21st century
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Africa
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Europe
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India -- Assam
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Ethnographies
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Ethnographies.
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Études ethnographiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Meyer, Birgit, 1960 March 21- editor.
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Veer, Peter van der, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781350167162 |
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1350167169 |
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9781350167155 |
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1350167150 |
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