Building Noah's Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities [electronic resource] /
Horstmann, Alexander.editor.
Jung, Jin-Heon.editor.
Building Noah's Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities examines religion within the framework of refugee studies as a public good, with the spiritual and material use of religion shedding new light on the agency of refugees in reconstructing their lives and positioning themselves in hostile environments. .
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction Refugees and Religion; Part I; Chapter 1 What Is a Refugee Religion? Exile, Exodus, and Emigration in the Vietnamese Diaspora; Chapter 2 Religious Imaginary as an Alternative Social and Moral Order-Karen Buddhism across the Thai-Burma Border; Chapter 3 Refugee and Religious Narratives: The Conversion of North Koreans from Refugees to God's Warriors; Chapter 4 Ritual Practice, Material Culture, and Well-Being in Displacement: Ka-thow-bòw in a Karenni Refugee Camp in Thailand; Part II
Chapter 5 Secular and Religious Sanctuaries: Interfaces of Humanitarianism and Self-Government of Karen Refugee-Migrants in TChapter 6 Conflicting Missions? The Politics of Evangelical Humanitarianism in the Sahrawi and Palestinian Protracted Refugee S; Chapter 7 Humanitarian Ad-Hocracy, Transnational New Apostolic Missions, and Evangelical Anti-dependency in a Haitian Refugee; Part III; Chapter 8 Palestinian Steadfastness as a Mission; Chapter 9 Conversion and Community among Iu Mien Refugee Immigrants in the United States
Chapter 10 Faith in Ethnicity: The Homeland Ties and Diasporic Formation of Vietnamese Caodaists in the United States and CaNotes on Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Building Noah's Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities examines religion within the framework of refugee studies as a public good, with the spiritual and material use of religion shedding new light on the agency of refugees in reconstructing their lives and positioning themselves in hostile environments. .
Migration.
Religion and sociology.
Ethnology.
Anthropology.
Migration.
Sociology of Religion.
Social Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Social Aspects of Religion.
Anthropology.