Refugees and Religion : Ethnographic Studies of Global Trajectories (Paperback)

1. Introduction Peter van der Veer (Max Planck Institute, Gottingen, 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, Gottingen, 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 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, Gottingen, Germany & Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) and Nga Mai (Max Planck Institute, Gottingen, 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, Gottingen, Germany) 13. Accommodating Religious Diversity: Micro-Politics of Spatial Separation in German Refugees Accommodation Centres, Alexander Kenneth-Nagel (University of Gottingen, 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