Religion Across Borders

Author : Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh,Janet Saltzman Chafetz
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0759102260

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Religion Across Borders by Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh,Janet Saltzman Chafetz Pdf

Religion Across Borders examines both personal and organizational networks that exist between members in U.S. immigrant religious communities and individuals and religious institutions left behind. Building upon Religion and the New Immigrants (2000)--their previous study of immigrant religious communities in Houston--sociologists Ebaugh and Chafetz ask how religious remittances flow between home and host communities, how these interchanges affect religious practices in both settings, and how influences change over time as new immigrants become settled.

Author : Stephen M. Cherry,Helen Rose Ebaugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317127338

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Global Religious Movements Across Borders by Stephen M. Cherry,Helen Rose Ebaugh Pdf

From global missionizing among proselytic faiths to mass migration through religious diasporas, religion has traveled from one side of the world and back again. It continues to play a prominent role in shaping world politics and has been a vital force in the continued emergence, spread, and creation of a transnational civil society. Exploring how religious roots are shaping organizations that seek to aid people across political and geographic boundaries - 'service movements' - this book focuses on how religious movements establish structures to assist people with basic human needs such as food, clothing, shelter, education, and health. Examining a multitude of faith traditions with origins in different parts of the world, seven contributing chapters, with an introduction and conclusions by the senior author, offer a unique discussion of the intersections between religious transnationalism and social movements.

Author : David M. Freidenreich,Miriam Goldstein
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780812206913

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Beyond Religious Borders by David M. Freidenreich,Miriam Goldstein Pdf

The medieval Islamic world comprised a wide variety of religions. While individuals and communities in this world identified themselves with particular faiths, boundaries between these groups were vague and in some cases nonexistent. Rather than simply borrowing or lending customs, goods, and notions to one another, the peoples of the Mediterranean region interacted within a common culture. Beyond Religious Borders presents sophisticated and often revolutionary studies of the ways Jewish, Christian, and Muslim thinkers drew ideas and inspiration from outside the bounds of their own religious communities. Each essay in this collection covers a key aspect of interreligious relationships in Mediterranean lands during the first six centuries of Islam. These studies focus on the cultural context of exchange, the impact of exchange, and the factors motivating exchange between adherents of different religions. Essays address the influence of the shared Arabic language on the transfer of knowledge, reconsider the restrictions imposed by Muslim rulers on Christian and Jewish subjects, and demonstrate the need to consider both Jewish and Muslim works in the study of Andalusian philosophy. Case studies on the impact of exchange examine specific literary, religious, and philosophical concepts that crossed religious borders. In each case, elements native to one religious group and originally foreign to another became fully at home in both. The volume concludes by considering why certain ideas crossed religious lines while others did not, and how specific figures involved in such processes understood their own roles in the transfer of ideas.

Author : Françoise Meltzer,Jas Elsner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226519937

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Saints by Françoise Meltzer,Jas Elsner Pdf

While the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, and porous subjectivity—categories that define the saint. In this collection, Françoise Meltzer and Jas Elsner bring together top scholars from across the humanities to reconsider our denial of saintliness and examine how modernity returns to the lure of saintly grace, energy, and charisma. Addressing such problems as how saints are made, the use of saints by political and secular orders, and how holiness is personified, Saints takes us on a photo tour of Graceland and the cult of Elvis and explores the changing political takes on Joan of Arc in France. It shows us the self-fashioning of culture through the reevaluation of saints in late-antique Judaism and Counter-Reformation Rome, and it questions the political intent of underlying claims to spiritual attainment of a Muslim sheikh in Morocco and of Sephardism in Israel. Populated with the likes of Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, and Padre Pio, this book is a fascinating inquiry into the status of saints in the modern world.

Author : Gemma Tulud Cruz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000416749

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Christianity Across Borders by Gemma Tulud Cruz Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of key issues in contemporary global migration and considers the theological implications for Christianity, in general, and for Christian faith and practice in various parts of the world, in particular. Migrant Christians, who make up the majority of believers on the move and in diaspora, play an increasingly vital role in world Christianity today. Drawing on cases from across the globe, Gemma Tulud Cruz considers how Christians are faced with immense gifts and tremendous challenges brought by the ever-increasing presence of migrants in their midst and the conditions that characterize contemporary global migration. Migrant Christians themselves face multiple challenges, which have been made more stark by the coronavirus pandemic. The volume will be relevant to scholars of religion and of migration who are interested in a closer examination of what happens to Christians and Christianity, (faith) communities, and nation-states in the age of migration.

Author : Jane Juffer
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1439910537

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Intimacy Across Borders by Jane Juffer Pdf

Examining how encounters produced by migration lead to intimacies-ranging from sexual, spiritual, and neighborly to hateful and violent, Jane Juffer considers the significant changes that have occurred in small towns following an influx of Latinos to the Midwest. Intimacy across Borders situates the story of the Dutch Reformed Church in Iowa and South Africa within a larger analysis of race, religion, and globalization. Drawing on personal narrative, ethnography, and sociopolitical critique, Juffer shows how migration to rural areas can disrupt even the most thoroughly entrenched religious beliefs and transform the schools, churches, and businesses that form the heart of small-town America. Conversely, such face-to-face encounters can also generate hatred, as illustrated in the increasing number of hate crimes against Latinos and the passage of numerous anti-immigrant ordinances. Juffer demonstrates how Latino migration to new areas of the U.S. threatens certain groups because it creates the potential for new kinds of families—mixed race, mixed legal status, and transnational—that challenge the conservative definition of community based on the racially homogeneous, coupled, citizen family.

Author : Helen Rose Ebaugh,Janet Saltzman Chafetz
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759116467

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Religion Across Borders by Helen Rose Ebaugh,Janet Saltzman Chafetz Pdf

The new immigrants coming to the United States and establishing ethnic congregations do not abandon religious ties in their home countries. Rather, as they communicate with family and friends left behind in their homelands, they influence religious structures and practices there. Religion Across Borders examines both personal and organizational networks that exist between members in U.S. immigrant religious communities and individuals and religious institutions left behind. Building upon Religion and the New Immigrants (2000)_their previous study of immigrant religious communities in Houston_sociologists Ebaugh and Chafetz ask how religious remittances flow between home and host communities, how these interchanges affect religious practices in both settings, and how influences change over time as new immigrants become settled. The study's unique comparative perspective looks at differing faith groups (Catholic, Protestant, Buddhist) from Argentina, Mexico, Guatamala, Vietnam and China. Data on ways in which historic, geographic, economic and religious factors influence transnational religious ties makes necessary reading for students of immigration, religion and anyone interested in the increasingly global aspects of American religion.

Author : Paul Kennedy,Victor Roudometof
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134526994

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Communities Across Borders by Paul Kennedy,Victor Roudometof Pdf

Communities across Borders examines the many ways in which national, ethnic or religious groups, professions, businesses and cultures are becoming increasingly tangled together. It show how this entanglement is the result of the vast flows of people, meanings, goods and money that now migrate between countries and world regions. Now the effectiveness and significance of electronic technologies for interpersonal communication (including cyber-communities and the interconnectedness of the global world economy) simultaneously empowers even the poorest people to forge effective cultures stretching national borders, and compels many to do so to escape injustice and deprivation.

Author : Daisy L. Machado,Bryan S. Turner,Trygve Eiliv Wyller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351056922

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Borderland Religion by Daisy L. Machado,Bryan S. Turner,Trygve Eiliv Wyller Pdf

Borderland Religion narrates, presents and interprets the fascinating and significant practices when borders, migrants and religion intersect. This collection of original essays combines theology, philosophy and sociology to examine diverse religious issues surrounding external national borders and internal domestic borders as these are challenged by the unstoppable flow of documented and undocumented migrants. While many studies of migration have examined how religion plays a major role in the assimilation and integration of waves of migration, this volume looks at a number of empirical studies of how emergent religious practices arise around border crossings. The volume begins with a detailed analysis of the borderland religion context and research. The aim is to bring an eschatological interpretation of the borderland religion, its impact and significance for migrants. Themes include a critical analysis of how religion has formatted Europe; empirical studies from the US/Mexican border and Southern Africa; an overview of the European refugee crisis in 2015; editors’ account of borderland religion from the perspective of citizenship studies. Contributions of scholars from a broad range of disciplines ensure a careful analysis of this highly topical situation. The volume’s interdisciplinary profile will appeal to scholars and students in religious studies, migration studies, theology and citizenship studies.

Author : Stephen M. Cherry,Helen Rose Ebaugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317127321

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Global Religious Movements Across Borders by Stephen M. Cherry,Helen Rose Ebaugh Pdf

From global missionizing among proselytic faiths to mass migration through religious diasporas, religion has traveled from one side of the world and back again. It continues to play a prominent role in shaping world politics and has been a vital force in the continued emergence, spread, and creation of a transnational civil society. Exploring how religious roots are shaping organizations that seek to aid people across political and geographic boundaries - 'service movements' - this book focuses on how religious movements establish structures to assist people with basic human needs such as food, clothing, shelter, education, and health. Examining a multitude of faith traditions with origins in different parts of the world, seven contributing chapters, with an introduction and conclusions by the senior author, offer a unique discussion of the intersections between religious transnationalism and social movements.

Author : Knut A. Jacobsen,Kristina Myrvold
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441170873

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Sikhs Across Borders by Knut A. Jacobsen,Kristina Myrvold Pdf

Sikhs Across Borders is the first study to explore patterns of transnational practices among European Sikhs, with particular focus on the links between the Sikhs in Europe, Punjab (the 'home-land') and within a global Sikh community. The book illustrates how local and transnational spheres coexist and interact in a multitude of social and cultural practices and discourses among European Sikhs past and present. Based on new empirical research Sikhs Across Borders book explores how religion continues to play a significant role in the daily lives of European Sikhs and is important for their maintenance of links with the homeland, as well as Sikhs in other parts of the world. The team of international contributors show how Sikhs are shaping new self-representations and identity constructions through a multitude of transnational practices on the individual, national and global level, such as marriages, pilgrimage narratives, and the use of the internet and new media. Further transnational practices examined include religious learning and teaching practices and responses to political events in the diaspora.

Author : Joerg Rieger
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780739175347

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Across Borders by Joerg Rieger Pdf

While work in theology and religious studies by scholars in Latin America and by Latino/a scholars in the United States has made substantial contributions to the current scholarship in the field, there are few projects where scholars from these various contexts are working together. Across Borders:Latin Perspectives in the Americas Reshaping Religion, Theology, and Life is unique, as it brings leading scholars from both worlds into the conversation. The chapters of this book deal with the complexities of solidarity, the intersections of the popular and the religious, the example of Afro-Cubanisms, the meaning of popular liberation struggles, Hispanic identity formation at the U.S. border, and the unique promise of studying religion and theology in the tensions between North and South in the Americas.

Author : Jenny Berglund,Thomas Lundén,Peter Strandbrink
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614516552

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Crossings and Crosses by Jenny Berglund,Thomas Lundén,Peter Strandbrink Pdf

Dealing with different regions and cases, the contributions in this volume address and critically explore the theme of borders, educations, and religions in northern Europe. As shown in different ways, and contrary to popular ideas, there seems to be little reason to believe that religious and civic identity formation through public education is becoming less parochial and more culturally open. Even where state borders are porous, where commerce, culture, and trade as well as associative, personal, and social life display stronger liminal traits, normative education remains surprisingly national. This situation is remarkable and goes against the grain of current notions of both accelerating globalisation and a European regional renaissance. The book also takes issue with the foundational tenet that liberal democracies are by definition uninvolved in matters concerning faith and belief. Instead, an implied conclusion is that secular liberal democracy is less than secular and liberal - at least in education, which is a major arena for political-cultural-ethical socialisation, as it aims to confer worldviews and frameworks of identity on young people who will eventually become full citizens and bearers/sharers of prevailing normative communities.

Author : Linda A. Mercadante
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1197804360

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Belief Without Borders: Inside the Minds of the Spiritual But Not Religious by Linda A. Mercadante Pdf

Author : Madawi Al-Rasheed
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Islamic fundamentalism
ISBN : 1850659311

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Kingdom Without Borders by Madawi Al-Rasheed Pdf

An exploration of Saudi Arabia's growing regional and international power. Combining top-down and grass-roots analysis, the contributors interrogate the reality and impact of Saudi transnational connections on local politics, religious affiliation and media genres.