Religious Communities In The Diaspora

Author : Gerrie ter Haar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004302366

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Strangers and Sojourners by Gerrie ter Haar Pdf

The modern world is full of diasporas. African Americans, and Muslims and Hindus in Europe, are some of the best known among them. The concept of 'diaspora' has spread rapidly in academic writing and the popular press. But what is a diaspora ? Derived from Jewish tradition, the word is now often applied to any minority which has migrated from its place of origin. Increasingly, the criterion used by journalists and academics for identifying such minorities is ethnic identity rather than religious allegiance. The present volume explores the ways in which the term 'diaspora' has been applied in past and present to various religious communities in different contexts. It considers under what circumstances people may be classified as living in a diaspora, and the consequences this has for their position in society. Specific chapters study Africans in modern Europe, Jews in ancient Egypt, Syrians throughout the Roman empire, Hindus in Britain and Muslims in the Netherlands today, and other so-called diaspora communities.

Author : Stephen Warner,Judith G. Wittner
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Gerrie ter Haar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : African diaspora
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112861138

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Religious Communities in the Diaspora by Gerrie ter Haar Pdf

Author : Harold Coward,John R. Hinnells,Raymond Brady Williams
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791493021

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The South Asian Religious Diaspora in Britain, Canada, and the United States by Harold Coward,John R. Hinnells,Raymond Brady Williams Pdf

This book explores the experience of religious communities that have migrated from South Asia (India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh) to live in Britain, Canada, and the United States, three countries sharing a common language (English) and an interwoven history. The work introduces the migration history of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs along with the cultural nuances of these traditions. The contributors discuss the various communities' experiences that grow out of or are related to religion. The book shows how traditions are reformed or reinvented and how they are passed on, both through the family and through institutions. Issues related to public policy and minority status are also addressed. While the main focus is on the Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh communities, specific sections also cover South Asian Christians, the Zoroastrian diaspora, and new religious movements in the West led by South Asians. The book strikes a balance between stories and statistics in order to emphasize the narrative of the immigrants' experience. [Contributors include: Roger Ballard, Judith Coney, Harold Coward, Diana L. Eck, Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, John R. Hinnells, Kim Knott, Gurinder Singh Mann, Sheila McDonough, Jørgen S. Nielsen, Joseph T. O'Connell, and Raymond Brady Williams.]

Author : Selva J. Raj
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317052302

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South Asian Christian Diaspora by Selva J. Raj Pdf

The South Asian Christian diaspora is largely invisible in the literature about religion and migration. This is the first comprehensive study of South Asian Christians living in Europe and North America, presenting the main features of these diasporas, their community histories and their religious practices. The South Asian Christian diaspora is pluralistic both in terms of religious adherence, cultural tradition and geographical areas of origin. This book gives justice to such pluralism and presents a multiplicity of cultures and traditions typical of the South Asian Christian diaspora. Issues such as the institutionalization of the religious traditions in new countries, identity, the paradox of belonging both to a minority immigrant group and a majority religion, the social functions of rituals, attitudes to language, generational transfer, and marriage and family life, are all discussed.

Author : Afe Adogame
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441136671

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The African Christian Diaspora by Afe Adogame Pdf

Informative guide offering interpretation and analysis of African immigrant Christianities in Western societies and their impact on the wider local-global religious scene.

Author : Sam George
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506447063

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Diaspora Christianities by Sam George Pdf

South Asians make up one of the largest diasporas in the world and Christians form a relatively large share of it. Christians from the Indian subcontinent have successfully transplanted themselves all over the globe, and many from different faith backgrounds have embraced Christianity at overseas locations. This volume includes biblical reflections on diasporic life, charts the historical and geographical spread of South Asian Christianity, and closes with a call to missional living in diaspora. It analyzes how migrants revive Christianity in adopted host nations and ancestral homelands. This book portrays the fascinating saga of Christians of South Asian origin who have pitched their tents in the furthest corners of the globe and showcases triumphs and challenges of scattered communities. It presents the contemporary religious experiences from a plethora of discrete perspectives. It deals with issues such as community history, struggles of identity and belonging, linkage of religious and cultural traditions, preservation and adaptation of faith practices, ties between ancestral homeland and host nation, and diasporic moral dilemmas in diaspora. This book argues that human scattering amplifies diversity within Christianity and for the need for hetrogeneous unity amidst great diversities.

Author : R. Marie Griffith,Barbara Dianne Savage
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0801883695

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Women and Religion in the African Diaspora by R. Marie Griffith,Barbara Dianne Savage Pdf

This landmark collection of newly commissioned essays explores how diverse women of African descent have practiced religion as part of the work of their ordinary and sometimes extraordinary lives. By examining women from North America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Africa, the contributors identify the patterns that emerge as women, religion, and diaspora intersect, mapping fresh approaches to this emergent field of inquiry. The volume focuses on issues of history, tradition, and the authenticity of African-derived spiritual practices in a variety of contexts, including those where memories of suffering remain fresh and powerful. The contributors discuss matters of power and leadership and of religious expressions outside of institutional settings. The essays study women of Christian denominations, African and Afro-Caribbean traditions, and Islam, addressing their roles as spiritual leaders, artists and musicians, preachers, and participants in bible-study groups. This volume's transnational mixture, along with its use of creative analytical approaches, challenges existing paradigms and summons new models for studying women, religions, and diasporic shiftings across time and space.

Author : John R. Hinnells
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0191513504

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The Zoroastrian Diaspora by John R. Hinnells Pdf

What is the distinctive Zoroastrian experience, and what is the common diasporic experience? The Zoroastrian Diaspora is the outcome of twenty years of research and of archival and fieldwork in eleven countries, involving approximately 250,000 miles of travel. It has also involved a survey questionnaire in eight countries, yielding over 1,840 responses. This is the first book to attempt a global comparison of Diaspora groups in six continents. Little has been written about Zoroastrian communities as far apart as China, East Africa, Europe, America, and Australia or on Parsis in Mumbai post-Independence. Each chapter is based on unused original sources ranging from nineteenth century archives to contemporary newsletters. The book also includes studies of Zoroastrians on the Internet, audio-visual resources, and the modern development of Parsi novels in English. As well as studying the Zoroastrians for their own inherent importance, this book contextualizes the Zoroastrian migrations within contemporary debates on Diaspora studies. John R. Hinnells examines what it is like to be a religious Asian in Los Angeles or London, Sydney or Hong Kong. Moreover, he explores not only how experience differs from one country to another, but also the differences between cities in the same country, for example, Chicago and Houston. The survey data is used firstly to consider the distinguishing demographic features of the Zoroastrian communities in various countries; and secondly to analyse different patterns of assimilation between different groups: men and women and according to the level and type of education. Comparisons are also drawn between people from rural and urban backgrounds; and between generations in religious beliefs and practices, including the preservation of secular culture.

Author : Sailaja Krishnamurti,Becky R. Lee
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780228009733

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Relation and Resistance by Sailaja Krishnamurti,Becky R. Lee Pdf

In Canada, women’s bodies are often at the centre of debates about religious pluralism, multiculturalism, and secularism. Women have long played a critical role in building and maintaining diasporic religious communities and networks, and they have also been catalysts for change and transformation within religious groups and the wider community. Relation and Resistance explores the stories and lives of racialized women connected with religious diaspora communities in Canada. Contributors from across disciplines show how women are conceptualizing traditions in transformative ways, challenging prevailing assumptions about diasporic religion as nostalgically entrenched in the past. The collected essays include chapters on feminist and queer women thinking critically about Hindu and Muslim identities and beliefs and challenging anti-Black racism and settler colonialism; Afro-Caribbean and Métis writers using literature to explore religion and belonging; the impact of women’s participation in Japanese, Chinese, and Pakistani transnational religious organizations; and marriage, migration, and gender equality in the Punjabi Sikh and Malayali Christian communities. The volume closes with a chapter exploring Métis diasporic experience and inviting readers to think critically about diasporic religion on Indigenous land. An innovative and timely volume, Relation and Resistance reveals that a deeper understanding of women’s experiences of displacement, migration, race, and gender is critical to the study of religion in Canada.

Author : Timothy G. Fehler,Greta Grace Kroeker,Charles H. Parker,Jonathan Ray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317318699

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Religious Diaspora in Early Modern Europe by Timothy G. Fehler,Greta Grace Kroeker,Charles H. Parker,Jonathan Ray Pdf

This collection of essays looks at the shared experience of exile across different groups in the early modern period. Contributors argue that exile is a useful analytical tool in the study of a wide variety of peoples previously examined in isolation.

Author : Carolin Alfonso,Waltraud Kokot,Khachig Tölölyan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Rajesh Rai,Chitra Sankaran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : Michael L. Budde
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532607103

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Scattered and Gathered by Michael L. Budde Pdf

This volume takes its title from the first-century Christian catechism called the Didache: "Even as this broken bread was scattered over the hills . . . gathered together and became one, so let Your Church be gathered together from the ends of the earth." For Christians today, these words remain relevant in an era of massive human movements (voluntary and coerced), hybrid identities, and wide-ranging cultural interactions. How do modern Christians live as both a "scattered" and "gathered" people? How do they live out the tension between ecclesial universality (catholicity) and particularity (distinctive ways of being church in a given culture and context)? Do Christians today constitute a "diaspora," a people dispersed across borders and cultures that nonetheless maintains a sense of commonality and mission? Scattered and Gathered: Catholics in Diaspora explores these questions through the work of fourteen scholars in different fields and from different corners of the world. Whether through reflections on Zimbabweans in Britain, Levantines in North America, or the remote island people of Chiloe now living in other parts of Chile, they guide readers along the winding road of insights and challenges facing many of today's Christians.

Author : Knut A. Jacobsen,Pratap Kumar
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047401407

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South Asians in the Diaspora by Knut A. Jacobsen,Pratap Kumar Pdf

This book explores the role of religion in a great number of the South Asian diaspora communities around the world and is unique in its emphasis on religious diversity, both across and within the religious traditions.