Migration and religion in East Asia
Subtitle: North Korean migrants' evangelical encounters
By: Jin-Heon Jung, Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137450388
Subjects: Evangelicalism; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration; RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Evangelism; Christianity; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Nationalism; Church history; Emigration and immigration; History
Description: "Since the mid-1990s when North Korea was gripped by a devastating famine, increasing numbers of North Korean migrants have been crossing the Sino-North Korean border en route to Seoul, South Korea, in search of a better life. Based on fieldwork conducted in Seoul and Northeast China, Migration and Religion in East Asia sheds light on North Korean migrants' Christian encounters and conversions throughout the process of migration and settlement. Focusing on churches as primary contact zones, it highlights the ways in which the migrants and their evangelical counterparts both draw on and contest each others' envisioning of a reunified Christianized nation-state. Analysing the intersections between religious and political conversion and physical migration, it scrutinises cultural understandings of identity politics, religio-political aspirations, competing discourses on humanitarianism, and freedom in both religious and national terms in the context of late-Cold War Korea"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. Introduction: North Korean Migrants and Contact Zones; title: 2. The Politics of South Korean Evangelical Nationalism; title: 3. Perilous Crossing: North Koreans' Christian Encounters in the Sino-North Korean Border Area; title: 4. Heroes to Regular Citizens: The Politics of North Korean Migrants Subjectivities; title: 5. Ideal Body, True Christians: The Freedom School; title: 6. Narrativization of Christian Passage: From Refugees to God's Warriors; title: 7. Conclusion: Free to Be.