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Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World

Author : Nicholas Terpstra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316351904
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World written by Nicholas Terpstra and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The religious refugee first emerged as a mass phenomenon in the late fifteenth century. Over the following two and a half centuries, millions of Jews, Muslims, and Christians were forced from their homes and into temporary or permanent exile. Their migrations across Europe and around the globe shaped the early modern world and profoundly affected literature, art, and culture. Economic and political factors drove many expulsions, but religion was the factor most commonly used to justify them. This was also the period of religious revival known as the Reformation. This book explores how reformers' ambitions to purify individuals and society fueled movements to purge ideas, objects, and people considered religiously alien or spiritually contagious. It aims to explain religious ideas and movements of the Reformation in nontechnical and comparative language.

Refugees and the Transformation of Societies

Author : Philomena Essed
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9780857457080
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Refugees and the Transformation of Societies written by Philomena Essed and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2004-06-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The refusal or reception of refugees has had serious implications for the social policies and social realities of numerous countries in east and west. Exploring experiences, interpretations and practices of 'refugees,' 'the internally displaced' and 'returnees' in or emerging from societies in violent conflict, this volume challenges prevailing orthodoxies and encourages new developments in refugee studies. It also addresses the ethics and politics of interventions by professionals and policy makers, using case studies of refugees from or in South Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and the Americas. These illustrate the dynamic nature of situations where refugees, policy- makers and practitioners interact in trying to construct new livelihoods in transforming societies. Without a proper understanding of this dynamic nature, so the volume argues overall, it is not possible to develop successful strategies for the accommodation and integration of refugees.

Refugees, Religions, and Social Change

Author : Horst Helle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781709185359
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Refugees, Religions, and Social Change written by Horst Helle and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These texts share a concern about the future, a regret that the evolution toward a more and more peaceful coexistence between humans from different nations and religions is coming to an end. The stability of developed countries eroded under the impact of the movement of refugees, and instead of providing a shared blueprint for ethics and transcendental ideas, religions became less and less relevant for the majority of moderate minded people. Religions even helped enforce social divisions in some aberrational form of faith. Muslim populations arrived in areas that used to be considered Christian, and the latter religion that in theory has the potential of spreading peace and good will all the way from Russia to California, turned out to be useful merely as an excuse for pursuing this or that political agenda. Refugees and religions produce social change, and as the West shows signs of crisis, the duty of social scientists to compare cultures in order to learn what makes them function or collapse, provokes the obvious task to finally look at China, which sociologists of the past (with few exceptions) have strangely ignored. If these essays contribute to looking at social change not as a superficial short-term trend, but as a crucial phase in how the human condition evolves or fails, then they serve a purpose.

The Refugee Crisis and Religion

Author : Luca Mavelli
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1783488964
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book The Refugee Crisis and Religion written by Luca Mavelli and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gathers together expertise from academics and practitioners in order to investigate the interconnections and interactions between religion, migration and the refugee regime.

The Changing Soul of Europe

Author : Helena Vilaça
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317038827
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Changing Soul of Europe written by Helena Vilaça and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book paves the way for a more enlarged discussion on religion and migration phenomena in countries of Northern and Southern Europe. From a comparative perspective, these are regions with very different religious traditions and different historical State/Church relations. Although official religion persisted longer in Nordic Protestant countries than in South Mediterranean countries, levels of secularization are higher. In the last decades, both Northern and Southern Europe have received strong flows of newcomers. From this perspective, the book presents through various theoretical lenses and empirical researches the impact mobility and consequent religious transnationalism have on multiple aspects of culture and social life in societies where the religious landscapes are increasingly diverse. The chapters demonstrate that we are dealing with complex scenarios: different contexts of reception, different countries of origin, various ethnicities and religious traditions (Catholics, Orthodox and Evangelical Christians, Muslims, Buddhists). Having become plural spaces, our societies tend to be far more concerned with the issue of social integration rather than with that of social identities reconstruction in society as a whole, often ignoring that today religion manifests itself as a plurality of religions. In short, what are the implications of newcomers for the religious life of Europe and for the redesign of its soul?

Follow the New Way

Author : Melissa May Borja
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067429002X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Follow the New Way written by Melissa May Borja and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive look at Hmong religion in the United States, where resettled refugees found creative ways to maintain their traditions, even as Christian organizations deputized by the government were granted an outsized influence on the refugees’ new lives. Every year, members of the Hmong Christian Church of God in Minneapolis gather for a cherished Thanksgiving celebration. But this Thanksgiving takes place in the spring, in remembrance of the turbulent days in May 1975 when thousands of Laotians were evacuated for resettlement in the United States. For many Hmong, passage to America was also a spiritual crossing. As they found novel approaches to living, they also embraced Christianity—called kev cai tshiab, “the new way”—as a means of navigating their complex spiritual landscapes. Melissa May Borja explores how this religious change happened and what it has meant for Hmong culture. American resettlement policies unintentionally deprived Hmong of the resources necessary for their time-honored rituals, in part because these practices, blending animism, ancestor worship, and shamanism, challenged many Christian-centric definitions of religion. At the same time, because the government delegated much of the resettlement work to Christian organizations, refugees developed close and dependent relationships with Christian groups. Ultimately the Hmong embraced Christianity on their own terms, adjusting to American spiritual life while finding opportunities to preserve their customs. Follow the New Way illustrates America’s wavering commitments to pluralism and secularism, offering a much-needed investigation into the public work done by religious institutions with the blessing of the state. But in the creation of a Christian-inflected Hmong American animism we see the resilience of tradition—how it deepens under transformative conditions.

Religion and the New Immigrants

Author : Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742503908
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Religion and the New Immigrants written by Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New immigrants_those arriving since the Immigration Reform Act of 1965_have forever altered American culture and have been profoundly altered in turn. Although the religious congregations they form are often a nexus of their negotiation between the old and new, they have received little scholarly attention. Religion and the New Immigrants fills this gap. Growing out of the carefully designed Religion, Ethnicity and the New Immigration Research project, Religion and the New Immigrants combines in-depth studies of thirteen congregations in the Houston area with seven thematic essays looking across their diversity. The congregations range from Vietnamese Buddhist to Greek Orthodox, a Zoroastrian center to a multi-ethnic Assembly of God, presenting an astonishing array of ethnicity and religious practice. Common research questions and the common location of the congregations give the volume a unique comparative focus. Religion and the New Immigrants is an essential reference for scholars of immigration, ethnicity, and American religion.

Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants

Author : Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813540115
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants written by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants captures the fascinating diversity of faith-based resistance around U.S. immigration issues.

Religion in the European Refugee Crisis

Author : Ulrich Schmiedel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319679619
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Religion in the European Refugee Crisis written by Ulrich Schmiedel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the roles of religion in the current refugee crisis of Europe. Combining sociological, philosophical, and theological accounts of this crisis, renowned scholars from across Europe examine how religion has been employed to call either for eliminating or for enforcing the walls around “Fortress Europe.” Religion, they argue, is radically ambiguous, simultaneously causing social conflict and social cohesion in times of turmoil. Charting the constellations, the conflicts, and the consequences of the current refugee crisis, this book thus answers the need for succinct but sustained accounts of the intersections of religion and migration.

The Culture Of Protest

Author : Susan Bibler Coutin
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Culture Of Protest written by Susan Bibler Coutin and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1993-08-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Culture of Protest explores how religious activists and Central American immigrants, by protesting U.S. refugee and foreign policy, create practices, meanings, and relationships that are, themselves, a form of social change. Viewing change as an ongoing, incremental process reveals that the sanctuary movement's reinterpretations of legal, religious, and social practices produce cultural forms that enact participants' visions of a more just social order. Unlike recent studies that view U.S. social movements primarily as strategies for achieving political objectives, this book analyzes what goes on in the midst of protest - the conversions that some North Americans experience as they come to know Central American reality, the relationships that form between refugees and sanctuary workers, the jokes and stories told by volunteers, and the religious rituals devised by participants. This rich ethnography reveals facets of change that would be missed by focusing exclusively on explicit goals and long-term strategies. As they assist refugees, sanctuary workers develop international notions of citizenship, create ecumenical interpretations of faith, form egalitarian communities, and cross a border between first and third worlds to view their own society through the eyes of the poor. Sanctuary is thus not only a practical effort to aid refugees and affect U.S. policy but also a cultural and religious movement with profound implications for U.S. society.

The Church, Migration, and Global (In)Difference

Author : Darren J. Dias
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030542262
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Church, Migration, and Global (In)Difference written by Darren J. Dias and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The painful reality faced by refugees and migrants is one of the greatest moral challenges of our time, in turn, becoming a focus of significant scholarship. This volume examines the global phenomenon of migration in its theological, historical, and socio-political dimensions and of how churches and faith communities have responded to the challenges of such mass human movement. The contributions reflect global perspectives with contributions from African, Asian, European, North American, and South American scholars and contexts. The essays are interdisciplinary, at the intersection of religion, anthropology, history, political science, gender and post-colonial studies. The volume brings together a variety of perspectives, inter-related by ecclesiological and theological concerns.

The Wayfarer

Author : Barnabé Anzuruni Msabah
Publisher : HippoBooks
ISBN 13 : 1839735554
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book The Wayfarer written by Barnabé Anzuruni Msabah and published by HippoBooks. This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scripture testifies to God’s care for displaced peoples. From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible is a narrative filled with migrants, with refugees, and with wayfarers. Even God himself is shown to be “on the move” – a God who does not stay on one side of the border but crosses over to save his people. In The Wayfarer, Dr. Barnabé Anzuruni Msabah engages the global refugee crisis from an interdisciplinary perspective that encompasses both development studies and theological reflection. Using specific examples from Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa, Msabah provides an overview of the sociopolitical, economic, and environmental dynamics of forced migration, while simultaneously exploring theological and cultural frameworks for understanding transformational community development. He examines both the church’s calling to provide sanctuary for displaced peoples and the role of refugees in contributing to the socioeconomic welfare of their host countries. While the church’s mandate is to act with justice and mercy towards the world’s most vulnerable populations, Msabah also reminds us that refugees are not passive recipients but powerful examples of courage, resilience, and hope who can, in their turn, transform our nations and our faith communities for the better.

Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the Americas

Author : Anna Lisa Peterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813529318
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the Americas written by Anna Lisa Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume resulted from a collaborative research project into responses of Protestant and Catholic religious communities in the Americas to the challenges of globalization. Contributors from the fields of religion, anthropology, political science, and sociology draw on fieldwork in Peru, El Salvador, and the United States to show the interplay of economic globalization, migration, and growing religious pluralism in Latin America. Organized around three central themes-family, youth, and community; democratization, citizenship, and political participation; and immigration and transnationalism-the book argues that, at the local level, religion helps people, especially women and youths, solidify their identities and confront the challenges of the modern world. Religious communities are seen as both peaceful venues for people to articulate their needs, and forums for building participatory democracies in the Americas. Finally, the contributors examine how religion enfranchises poor women, youths, and people displaced by war or economic change and, at the same time, drives social movements that seek to strengthen family and community bonds disrupted by migration and political violence.

Religion, Migration and Identity

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004326154
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Religion, Migration and Identity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Religion, Migration and Identity scholars from various disciplines explore issues related to identity and religion, that people - individually and communally -, encounter when affected by migration dynamics; the volume foregrounds methodology as its main concern.

Refugees Welcome?

Author : Jan-Jonathan Bock
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789201292
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Refugees Welcome? written by Jan-Jonathan Bock and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The arrival in 2015 and 2016 of over one million asylum seekers and refugees in Germany had major social consequences and gave rise to extensive debates about the nature of cultural diversity and collective life. This volume examines the responses and implications of what was widely seen as the most significant and contested social change since German reunification in 1990. It combines in-depth studies based on anthropological fieldwork with analyses of the longer trajectories of migration and social change. Its original conclusions have significance not only for Germany but also for the understanding of diversity and difference more widely.

The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Cities

Author : Katie Day
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000289265
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Cities written by Katie Day and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like an ecosystem, cities develop, change, thrive, adapt, expand, and contract through the interaction of myriad components. Religion is one of those living parts, shaping and being shaped by urban contexts. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Cities is an outstanding interdisciplinary reference source to the key topics, problems, and methodologies of this cutting-edge subject. Representing a diverse array of cities and religions, the common analytical approach is ecological and spatial. It is the first collection of its kind and reflects state-of-the-art research focusing on the interaction of religions and their urban contexts. Comprising 29 chapters, by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into three parts: Research methodologies Religious frameworks and ideologies in urban contexts Contemporary issues in religion and cities Within these sections, emerging research and analysis of current dynamics of urban religions are examined, including: housing, economics, and gentrification; sacred ritual and public space; immigration and the refugee crisis; political conflicts and social change; ethnic and religious diversity; urban policy and religion; racial justice; architecture and the built environment; religious art and symbology; religion and urban violence; technology and smart cities; the challenge of climate change for global cities; and religious meaning-making of the city. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Cities is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies and urban studies. The Handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as sociology, history, architecture, urban planning, theology, social work, and cultural studies.

Religion and Migration

Author : Andrea Bieler
Publisher : Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
ISBN 13 : 3374061338
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Migration written by Andrea Bieler and published by Evangelische Verlagsanstalt. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores religious discourses and practices of hospitality in the context of migration. It articulates the implied ambivalences and even contradictions as well as the potential to contribute to a more just world through social interconnection with others. The book features contributors from diverse national, denominational, cultural, and racial backgrounds. Their essays reveal a dichotomy of hospitality between guest and host, while tackling the meaning of home or the loss of it, interrogating both the peril and promise of the relationship between religion, chiefly Christianity, and hospitality, and focusing on the role of migrants' vulnerability and agency, by drawing from empirical, theological, sociological and anthropological insights emerged from postcolonial migration contexts. With contributions by Andrea Bieler, Jione Havea, Claudia Hoffmann, HyeRan Kim-Cragg, Claudia Jahnel, Isolde Karle, Buhle Mpofu, Armin Nassehi, Ilona Nord, Henrietta Nyamnjoh, Regina Polak, Ludger Pries, Thomas Reynolds, Harsha Walia, Jula Well, and Birgit Weyel. [Religion und Migration] Dieser Band beschäftigt sich mit religiösen Diskursen und religiöser Praxis, die Gastfreundschaft im Kontext von Migration thematisieren. Dabei werden sowohl Potenziale identifiziert, die in Richtung größerer Gerechtigkeit und sozialer Verbundenheit weisen, als auch Ambivalenzen und Widersprüche. Das Buch präsentiert Beiträge, die verschiedene nationale, konfessionelle, kulturelle und ethnische Kontexte reflektieren. Dabei kommen die problematischen sowie die verheißungsvollen Dimensionen der Dichotomie von Gast- und Gastgebersein in den Blick, die der Fokus auf Gastfreundschaft insbesondere im Christentum impliziert. Die Frage nach dem Zusammenhang von Verletzbarkeit und Handlungsmacht von Migrantinnen und Migranten wird aus empirischer, theologischer, soziologischer sowie anthropologischer Perspektive beleuchtet.