Refugees and Religion : : Ethnographic Studies of Global Trajectories / / Birgit Meyer, Peter van der Veer, editor.

• TeilnehmendeR: van der Veer, Peter,; Meyer, Birgit,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 332 pages)

"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, Goettingen, 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, Goettingen, Germany)
• Part II: People on the Move from Vietnam4. Victims of Atheist Persecution.
• Transnational Catholic Solidarity and Refugee Protection in Cold War Asia, Phi Van 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, Goettingen, Germany & Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) and Nga Mai (Max Planck Institute, Goettingen, 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, Goettingen, Germany)
• 13. Accommodating Religious Diversity: Micro-Politics of Spatial Separation in German Refugees Accommodation Centres, Alexander Kenneth-Nagel (University of Goettingen, 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)
• Bibliography
• Index.