Refugees and religion : ethnographic studies of global trajectories / edited by Birgit Meyer and Peter van der Veer

• HerausgeberIn: Meyer, Birgit 1960-; Veer, Peter van der 1953-
• Place / Publishing House: London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xi, 332 Seiten; Illustrationen

"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...

Table of Contents

• 1. Introduction / Peter van der Veer (Max Planck Institute, Göttingen, Germany)
• Part I. Politics of religious plurality in Europe. 2. War, migration, and the politics of religious diversity / Wayne te Brake (Purchase College, State University of New York, USA) ; 3. German refugees and refugees in Germany / Peter van der Veer (Max Planck Institute, Göttingen, Germany)
• Part II. People on the move from Vietnam. 4. Victims of atheist persecution.Transnational Catholic solidarity and refugee protection in cold war Asia / Phi Vń Nguyen (University of Saint-Boniface, Canada) ; 5. The Virgin Mary became Asian: diasporic nationalism among Vietnamese Catholic refugees in the US and Germany / Thien-Huong Ninh (Cosumnes River College, USA) ; 6. Refugees in the land of Awes: Vietnamese arrivals and departures / Janet Hoskins (University of Southern California, USA) ; 7. In search of a Vietnamese Buddhist space in Germany / Tam Ngo (Max Planck Institute, Göttingen, Germany & Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) and Nga Mai (Max Planck Institute, Göttingen, Germany)
• Part III. People on the move in and from Africa. 8. Are we an elected people? Religion and the everyday experience of young Congolese refugees in Kampala / Alessandro Gusman (University of Turin, Italy) ; 9. The 'conquering new territory for Jesus?': The transience and local presence of African Pentecostal migrants in Morocco / Johara Berriane (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany) ; 10. Ritual space and religious practice: young West African Muslims in Berlin, Germany / Abdoulaye Sounaye (Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany)
• Part IV. Political spaces of reception. 11. Texts, language and religion in the making of the Syriac Orthodox Communities in Europe / Heleen Murre van den Berg (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) ; 12. Between hope and fear: migrant 'illegality' and camp life in Assam, India / Salah Punathil (Max Planck Institute, Göttingen, Germany) ; 13. Accommodating religious diversity: micro-politics of spatial separation in German refugees accommodation centres / Alexander Kenneth-Nagel (University of Göttingen, Germany) ; 14. Conversion through destitution: religion, law and doubt in the UK asylum system / William Wheeler (University of Manchester, UK) ; 16. Afterword / Birgit Meyer (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)