Migration and religion
Subtitle: Christian transatlantic missions, Islamic migration to Germany
By: edited by Barbara Becker-Cantarino
Contributors: Becker-Cantarino, Barbara, editor
Series: Chloe : Beihefte zum Daphnis -- Bd. 46; Chloe -- Bd. 46.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9789042035362; 9789401208116
Subjects: Missions; Religious aspects; Mission; Integration; Muslims; Congresses; Migration; Emigration and immigration; Einwanderer; Christianity and other religions
Description: This volume looks at how religious identity and symbolic ethnicity influence migration. Religion - Christianity - was an important factor in European transatlantic migrations; religion - Islam - is a major issue in the immigration debate in "post-secular" Germany (and Europe) today. Essays focus on German missionaries and their efforts in the eighteenth century to establish new communal forms of living with Native Americans as religious encounters. In a comparative fashion, Islamic transnational migration into Germany in the twenty-first century is explored in a second group of essays that look at Muslim populations in Germany. They provide an insight into the ongoing discussions in Germany about modern migration and the role of religion.
Notes: "Most of the essays in this volume had their origin in a conference organized as a Humboldt Kolleg at the Ohio State University in April 2011: 'Migration, Religion, and Germany.'"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Religion and migration : Christian missionaries in North America, Muslim populations in Germany / Barbara Becker-Cantarino; title: Theological tenets and motives of mission : August Hermann Francke, Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf / Wolfgang Breuel; title: Indians observed : Moravian missionary John Heckewelder's Account of the history, manners, and customs of the Christian nations (1819) / Pia Schmid; title: Remapping the world : the vision of a Protestant empire in the eighteenth century / Ulrike Gleixner; title: From "German India" to the Spanish Indies and back : Jesuit migrations abroad and their effects at home / Ulrike Strasser; title: "A source of praise" : the wanderings of a devotional book / Cornelia Niekus Moore; title: Islam debates around 1900 : colonies in Africa, Muslims in Berlin, and the role of missionaries and orientalists / Rebekka Habermas; title: Christian universalism? : racism and collective identity in twenty-first century immigration discourses / Claudia Breger; title: "You pray like we have fun" : toward a phenomenology of secular Islam / David Gramling; title: Iranian, Afghan, and Pakistani migrants in Germany : Muslim populations beyond Turks and Arabs / Kamaal Haque; title: Mosque debates as space-related, intercultural, and religious conflict / Thomas Schmitt; title: Muslim migration to Germany : a response to Thilo Sarrazin, Deutschland schafft sich ab / Karl Ivan Solibakke.