ISBN:
9789401208116
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (245 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Chloe 46
Series Statement:
Chloe
Parallel Title:
Print version Migration and Religion : Christian Transatlantic Missions, Islamic Migration to Germany
DDC:
240.1
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift 2011
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Konferenzschrift
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift 2011
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Konferenzschrift
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Deutschland
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USA
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Mission
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Migration
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Geschichte
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Deutschland
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Muslim
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Einwanderer
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Integration
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Geschichte
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Amerika
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Missionar
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Deutsche
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Geschichte 1700-1800
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Deutschland
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Islam
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Muslim
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Einwanderung
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Geschichte 1900-2010
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Religion and Migration: Christian Missionaries in North America, MuslimPopulations in Germany; Theological Tenets and Motives of Mission: August Hermann Francke,Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf; Indians Observed: Moravian Missionary John Heckewelder's Account of theHistory, Manners, and Customs of the Indian Nations (1819); Remapping the World: The Vision of a Protestant Empire in the EighteenthCentury; From "German India" to the Spanish Indies and Back: Jesuit MigrationsAbroad and Their Effects at Home
Description / Table of Contents:
"A Source of Praise": The Wanderings of a Devotional BookIslam Debates around 1900: Colonies in Africa, Muslims in Berlin, and theRole of Missionaries and Orientalists; Christian Universalism? Racism and Collective Identity in Twenty-First-Century Immigration Discourses; "You Pray Like We Have Fun": Toward a Phenomenology of SecularIslam; Iranian, Afghan, and Pakistani Migrants in Germany: Muslim PopulationsBeyond Turks and Arabs; Mosque Debates as Space-Related, Intercultural, and Religious Conflict; Muslim Migration to Germany: A Response to Thilo Sarrazin, Deutschlandschafft sich ab
Description / Table of Contents:
List of ContributorsIndex
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1163/9789401208116
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