Missions and Conversions - Creating the Montagnard-Dega Refugee Community (Paperback, 1st ed. 2009)

This study offers a fresh reading of religious conversion by analyzing a variety of "missionaries" that sought to influence the Montagnard-Dega refugee. Thomas Pearson uses ethnographic and archival research to tell the story of cross-cultural contact in the highlands during the Vietnam War, Christian conversion, refugee exile, and the formation of the Dega refugee community in the United States. His insightful study considers not just evangelicals and Catholics, but humanitarian workers in the highlands, refugee resettlement volunteers in the United States, and the American Special Forces soldiers. This book makes the case that the Dega have appropriated the anthropological and religious discourses of this disparate group of missionaries to recreate themselves through a multivalent "conversion."

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
Release date:	November 2015
First published:	2009
Authors:	T. Pearson
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	241
Edition:	1st ed. 2009
ISBN-13:	978-1-349-37921-7
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Religious groups Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > General Books > Christianity
LSN:	1-349-37921-2
Barcode:	9781349379217

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