Refugees and Religion Ethnographic Studies of Global Trajectories

• Outros Autores: Meyer, Birgit (Editor), van der Veer, Peter (Editor)
• Formato: Recurso Electrónico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: London Bloomsbury Academic 2021
• Assuntos: Refugees & political asylum; Religion & politics; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Refugees and political asylum; Social and cultural anthropology; Religion and politics
• Acesso em linha: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Resumo

Understanding religion from a material and corporeal angle, this open access book addresses the ways in which refugees practice their religions and convert or develop new faiths. It also evaluates how secular institutions in Europe frame and determine what is classified as religion according to the law, and delineate the limits of religious authority, religious practice, and religious speech. The question of nationalism and migration has been shaping the political landscape in Europe for more than a decade, resulting in a nationalist upsurge. This volume places the current trajectories of people from Asia and Africa who flee from conditions such as oppression and conflict, and who are seeking refuge in Europe in a broader historical and comparative perspective. In so doing, it addresses past experiences in Europe with the role of religion in both producing and accommodating refugees, in the aftermath of the Peace of Westphalia, World War II, and in the context of the Cold War.

Descrição Física

1 electronic resource (352 p.)

ISBN

9781350167162
9781350167155
9781350167148

Acesso

Open Access