Migration and religion: Christian transatlantic missions, Islamic migration to Germany
This volume looks at how religious identity and symbolic ethnicity influence migration. Religion - Christianity - was an important factor in European transatlantic migrations; religion - Islam - is a major issue in the immigration debate in "post-secular" Germany (and Europe) today. Essays...
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Format: | Electronic Book |
Language: | English |
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Amsterdam New York
Editions Rodopi
2012
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In: |
Chloe (46)
Year: 2012 |
Series/Journal: | Chloe
46 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Germany
/ USA
/ Mission (international law
/ Migration
/ History
B Germany / Muslim / Immigrants / Integration / History B The Americas / Missionary / Germans / History 1700-1800 B Germany / Islam / Muslim / Immigration / History 1900-2010 |
Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Electronic books B Conference program |
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Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: Migration and Religion : Christian Transatlantic Missions, Islamic Migration to Germany: |
Summary: | This volume looks at how religious identity and symbolic ethnicity influence migration. Religion - Christianity - was an important factor in European transatlantic migrations; religion - Islam - is a major issue in the immigration debate in "post-secular" Germany (and Europe) today. Essays focus on German missionaries and their efforts in the eighteenth century to establish new communal forms of living with Native Americans as religious encounters. In a comparative fashion, Islamic transnational migration into Germany in the twenty-first century is explored in a second group of essays that loo |
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Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
ISBN: | 9401208115 |
Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789401208116 |