Religion Diaspora And Cultural Identity

Author : J.W. Pulis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134390694

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Religion, Diaspora and Cultural Identity by J.W. Pulis Pdf

Although the religions of the Caribbean have been a subject of popular media, there have been few ethnographic publications. This text is a much-needed and long overdue addition to Caribbean studies and the exploration of ideas, beliefs, and religious practices of Caribbean folk in diaspora and at home. Drawing upon ethnographic and historical research in a variety of contexts and settings, the contributors to this volume explore the relationship between religious and social life. Whether practiced at home or abroad, the contributors contend that the religions of Caribbean folk are dynamic and creative endeavors that have mediated the ongoing and open-ended relation between local and global, historical and contemporary change.

Author : John W. Pulis
Publisher : Gordon & Breach Publishing Group
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 9057005468

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Religion, Diaspora and Cultural Identity by John W. Pulis Pdf

Although the religions of the Caribbean have been a subject of popular media, there have been few ethnographic publications. This text is a much-needed & long overdue addition to Caribbean studies & the exploration of ideas, beliefs & religious practices of Caribbean folk in diaspora & at home. Drawing upon ethnographic & historical research in a variety of contexts & settings, the contributors to this volume explore the relationship between religious & social life. Whether practiced at home or abroad, the contributors contend that the religions of Caribbean folk are dynamic & creative endeavors that have mediated the ongoing & open-ended relation between local & global, historical & contemporary change.

Author : Sondra L. Hausner,Jane Garnett
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137400293

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Religion in Diaspora by Sondra L. Hausner,Jane Garnett Pdf

This edited collection addresses the relationship between diaspora, religion and the politics of identity in the modern world. It illuminates religious understandings of citizenship, association and civil society, and situates them historically within diverse cultures of memory and state traditions.

Author : Carolin Alfonso,Waltraud Kokot,Khachig Tölölyan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134390359

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Diaspora, Identity and Religion by Carolin Alfonso,Waltraud Kokot,Khachig Tölölyan Pdf

Over the last decade, concepts of diaspora and locality have gained complex new meanings in political discourse as well as in social and cultural studies. Diaspora, in particular, has acquired new meanings related to notions such as global deterritorialization, transnational migration and cultural hybridity. The authors discuss the key concepts and theory, focus on the meaning of religion both as a factor in forming diasporic social organisations, as well as shaping and maintaining diasporic identities, and the appropriation of space and place in history. It includes up to date research of the Caribbean, Irish, Armenian, African and Greek diasporas.

Author : Sondra L. Hausner,Jane Garnett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137400307

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Religion in Diaspora by Sondra L. Hausner,Jane Garnett Pdf

This edited collection addresses the relationship between diaspora, religion and the politics of identity in the modern world. It illuminates religious understandings of citizenship, association and civil society, and situates them historically within diverse cultures of memory and state traditions.

Author : Haideh Moghissi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135985400

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Muslim Diaspora by Haideh Moghissi Pdf

Muslim Diaspora identifies those aspects of migratory experience that shatter or reinforce a group’s attachment to its homeland and affect its readiness to adapt to a new country. The contributors to this collection examine many dimensions of life in the Diaspora and demonstrate that identity is always constructed in relation to others. They show how religious identity in diaspora is mediated by many other factors such as: Gender Class Ethnic origin National status A central aim is to understand Diaspora as an agent of social and cultural change, particularly in its transformative impact on women. Throughout, the book advances a more nuanced understanding of the notions of ethnicity, difference and rights. It makes an important contribution to understanding the complex processes of formation and adoption of transnational identities and the challenging contradictions of a world that is being rapidly globalized in economic and political terms, and yet is increasingly localized and differentiated, ethically and culturally. Muslim Diaspora includes contributions from outstanding scholars and is an invaluable text for students in sociology, anthropology, geography, cultural studies, Islamic studies, women’s studies as well as the general reader.

Author : Rajesh Rai,Chitra Sankaran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351551595

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Religion and Identity in the South Asian Diaspora by Rajesh Rai,Chitra Sankaran Pdf

Religious identity constitutes a key element in the formation, development and sustenance of South Asian diasporic communities. Through studies of South Asian communities situated in multiple locales, this book explores the role of religious identity in the social and political organization of the diaspora. It accounts for the factors that underlie the modification of ritual practice in the process of resettlement, and considers how multicultural policies in the adopted state, trans-generational changes and the proliferation of transnational media has impacted the development of these identities in the diaspora. Also crucial is the gender dimension, in terms of how religion and caste affect women’s roles in the South Asian diaspora. What emerges then from the way separate communities in the diaspora negotiate religion are diverse patterns that are strategic and contingent. Yet, paradoxically, the dynamic and evolving relationship between religion and diaspora becomes necessary, even imperative, for sustaining a cohesive collective identity in these communities. This bookw as published as a special issue of South Asian Diaspora.

Author : Becky R. Lee,Terry Tak-ling Woo
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771121569

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Canadian Women Shaping Diasporic Religious Identities by Becky R. Lee,Terry Tak-ling Woo Pdf

This collection of essays explores how women from a variety of religious and cultural communities have contributed to the richly textured, pluralistic society of Canada. Focusing on women’s religiosity, it examines the ways in which they have carried and conserved, and brought forward and transformed their cultures—old and new—in modern Canada. Each essay explores the ways in which the religiosities of women serve as locations for both the assertion and the refashioning of individual and communal identity in transcultural contexts. Three shared assumptions guide these essays: religion plays a dynamic role in the shaping and reshaping of social cultures; women are active participants in their transmission and their transformation; and a focus on women's activities within their religious traditions—often informal and unofficial—provides new perspectives on the intersection of religion, gender, and transnationalism. Since the first European migrations, Canada has been shaped by immigrant communities as they negotiated the tension between preserving their religious and cultural traditions and embracing the new opportunities in their adopted homeland. Viewing those interactions through the lens of women’s religiosity, the essays in this collection model an innovative approach and provide new perspectives for students and researchers of Canadian Studies, Religious Studies, and Women’s Studies.

Author : William Ackah,Jualynne E. Dodson,R. Drew Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781315466194

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Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora by William Ackah,Jualynne E. Dodson,R. Drew Smith Pdf

Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora explores the ways in which religious ideas and beliefs continue to play a crucial role in the lives of people of African descent. The chapters in this volume use historical and contemporary examples to show how people of African descent develop and engage with spiritual rituals, organizations and practices to make sense of their lives, challenge injustices and creatively express their spiritual imaginings. This book poses and answers the following critical questions: To what extent are ideas of spirituality emanating from Africa and the diaspora still influenced by an African aesthetic? What impact has globalisation had on spiritual and cultural identities of peoples on African descendant peoples? And what is the utility of the practices and social organizations that house African spiritual expression in tackling social, political cultural and economic inequities? The essays in this volume reveal how spirituality weaves and intersects with issues of gender, class, sexuality and race across Africa and the diaspora. It will appeal to researchers and postgraduate students interested in the study of African religions, race and religion, sociology of religion and anthropology.

Author : Patrick Taylor
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253338352

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Nation Dance by Patrick Taylor Pdf

Dealing with the ongoing interaction of rich and diverse cultural traditions from Cuba and Jamaica to Guyana and Surinam, Nation Dance addresses some of the major contemporary issues in the study of Caribbean religion and identity. The book’s three sections move from a focus on spirituality and healing, to theology in social and political context, and on to questions of identity and diaspora. The book begins with the voices of female practitioners and then offers a broad, interdisciplinary examination of Caribbean religion and culture. Afro-Caribbean religions, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are all addressed, with specific reflections on Santería, Palo Monte, Vodou, Winti, Obeah, Kali Mai, Orisha work, Spiritual Baptist faith, Spiritualism, Rastafari, Confucianism, Congregationalism, Pentecostalism, Catholicism, and liberation theology. Some essays are based on fieldwork, archival research, and textual or linguistic analysis, while others are concerned with methodological or theoretical issues. Contributors include practitioners and scholars, some very established in the field, others with fresh, new approaches; all of them come from the region or have done extensive fieldwork or research there. In these essays the poetic vitality of the practitioner’s voice meets the attentive commitment of the postcolonial scholar in a dance of "nations" across the waters.

Author : Stuart Hall
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478002710

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Essential Essays, Volume 2 by Stuart Hall Pdf

From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race and identity in the 1990s and early 2000s, Stuart Hall has been central to shaping many of the cultural and political debates of our time. Essential Essays—a landmark two-volume set—brings together Stuart Hall's most influential and foundational works. Spanning the whole of his career, these volumes reflect the breadth and depth of his intellectual and political projects while demonstrating their continued vitality and importance. Volume 2: Identity and Diaspora draws from Hall's later essays, in which he investigated questions of colonialism, empire, and race. It opens with “Gramsci's Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity,” which frames the volume and finds Hall rethinking received notions of racial essentialism. In addition to essays on multiculturalism and globalization, black popular culture, and Western modernity's racial underpinnings, Volume 2 contains three interviews with Hall, in which he reflects on his life to theorize his identity as a colonial and diasporic subject.

Author : Jørn Borup,Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger,Lene Kühle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004415812

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Religious Diversity in Asia by Jørn Borup,Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger,Lene Kühle Pdf

This anthology explores religious diversity in Asia seen through the lenses of history, identity, state, ritual and geography. The chapters furthermore address theoretical and methodological reflections using Asia as a laboratory for broader comparative research of 'religious diversity'.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:2019328577

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Identity and Diaspora by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen Warner,Judith G. Wittner
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781566396141

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Gatherings In Diaspora by Stephen Warner,Judith G. Wittner Pdf

Gatherings in Diaspora brings together the latest chapters in the long-running chronicle of religion and immigration in the American experience. Today, as in the past, people migrating to the United States bring their religions with them, and their religious identities often mean more to them away from home, in their diaspora, than they did before. This book explores and analyzes the diverse religious communities of post-1965 diasporas: Christians, Hews, Muslims, Hindus, Rastafarians, and practitioners of Vodou, from countries such as China, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Iran, Jamaica, Korea, and Mexico. The contributors explore how, to a greater or lesser extent, immigrants and their offspring adapt their religious institutions to American conditions, often interacting with religious communities already established. The religious institutions they build, adapt, remodel, and adopt become worlds unto themselves, congregations, where new relations are forged within the community -- between men and women, parents and children, recent arrival and those longer settled.

Author : P. Pratap Kumar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015082662241

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Religious Pluralism in the Diaspora by P. Pratap Kumar Pdf

Analyses the experiences of various cultural groups on religious pluralism in the context of Diaspora. This book also covers case-studies which provide insight into the important issue of manifestation of religion in modern society.