Full Description
Building Noah's Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities examines religion within the framework of refugee studies as a public good, with the spiritual and material use of religion shedding new light on the agency of refugees in reconstructing their lives and positioning themselves in hostile environments.
Contents
Introduction: Refugees and Religion; Alexander Horstmann and Jin-Heon Jung PART I 1. What is a Refugee Religion? Exile, Exodus and Emigration in the Vietnamese Diaspora; Janet Hoskins 2. Religious Imaginary as an Alternative Social and Moral Order: Karen Buddhism across the Thai-Burma Border; Mikael Gravers 3. Refugee and Religious Narratives: The Conversion of North Koreans from Refugees to God's Warriors; Jin-Heon Jung 4. Ritual Practice, Material Culture, and Wellbeing in Displacement: Ka-thow-bòw in a Karenni Refugee Camp in Thailand; Sandra Dudley PART II 5. Secular and Religious Sanctuaries: Interfaces of Humanitarianism and Self-Government of Karen Refugee-Migrants in Thai Burmese Border Spaces; Alexander Horstmann 6. Conflicting Missions? The Politics of Evangelical Humanitarianism in the Sahrawi and Palestinian Protracted Refugee Situations; Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh 7. Humanitarian Adhocracy, Transnational New Apostolic Missions, and Evangelical Anti-Dependency in a Haitian Refugee Camp; Elizabeth McAlister PART III 8. Palestinian Steadfastness as a Mission; Leonardo Schiocchet 9. Conversion and Community among Iu Mien Refugee Immigrants in the United States; Hjorleifur Jonsson 10. Faith in Ethnicity: The Homeland Ties and Diasporic Formation of Vietnamese Caodaists in the United States and Cambodia; Thien-Huong Ninh
