Diaspora, identity, and religion
Subtitle: new directions in theory and research
By: edited by Waltraud Kokot, Khachig Tölölyan and Carolin Alfonso.
Contributors: Kokot, Waltraud.; Tölölyan, Khachig.; Alfonso, Carolin, 1969-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Emigration and immigration.; Ethnic relations -- Political aspects.; Group identity.; Religious minorities.; Space and time -- Social aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Deconstructing and comparing diasporas / William Safran; title: Diasporic spatiality and the question of identity / Avtar Brah; title: Identity politics, history, and locality; title: "Too close for comfort" : remembering the forgotten diaspora of Irish women in England / Breda Gray; title: Place, movement, and identity : processes of inclusion and exclusion in a Caribbean family / Karen Fog Olwig; title: Why locality matters : diaspora consciousness and sedentariness in the Armenian diaspora in Greece / Susanne Schwalgin; title: Past and present in the history of modern Greek diaspora / Ioannis K. Hassiotis; title: Griots, roots, and identity in the African diaspora / Hauke Dorsch; title: The invention of history in the Irish American diaspora : myths of the great famine / Astrid Wonneberger; title: Diasporic aspects of religion; title: Religion or culture? : concepts of identity in the Alevi diaspora / Martin Sökefeld; title: A double minority : notes on the emerging Yezidi diaspora / Andreas Ackermann; title: A diachronic view at diaspora, the significance of religion, and Hindu Trinidadians / Martin Baumann; title: They prayed in Brazil and it rained in Boston : Dominican and Brazilian transnational religious life / Peggy Levitt; title: Let it flow : economy, spirituality, and gender in the Sindhi network / Dieter Haller.