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This innovative volume introduces readers to a variety of
disciplinary and methodological approaches used to examine the
intersections of religion and migration. A range of leading figures
in this field consider the roles of religion throughout various
types of migration, including forced, voluntary, and economic. They
discuss examples of migrations at all levels, from local to global,
and critically examine case studies from various regional contexts
across the globe. The book grapples with the linkages and feedback
between religion and migration, exploring immigrant congregations,
activism among and between religious groups, and innovations in
religious thought in light of migration experiences, among other
themes. The contributors demonstrate that religion is an important
factor in migration studies and that attention to the intersection
between religion and migration augments and enriches our
understandings of religion. Ultimately, this volume provides a
crucial survey of a burgeoning cross-disciplinary, interreligious,
and global area of study.
This innovative volume introduces readers to a variety of
disciplinary and methodological approaches used to examine the
intersections of religion and migration. A range of leading figures
in this field consider the roles of religion throughout various
types of migration, including forced, voluntary, and economic. They
discuss examples of migrations at all levels, from local to global,
and critically examine case studies from various regional contexts
across the globe. The book grapples with the linkages and feedback
between religion and migration, exploring immigrant congregations,
activism among and between religious groups, and innovations in
religious thought in light of migration experiences, among other
themes. The contributors demonstrate that religion is an important
factor in migration studies and that attention to the intersection
between religion and migration augments and enriches our
understandings of religion. Ultimately, this volume provides a
crucial survey of a burgeoning cross-disciplinary, interreligious,
and global area of study.
Imagining Religious Communities tells the story of the Gupta family
through the personal and religious narratives they tell as they
create and maintain their extended family and community across
national borders. Based on ethnographic research, the book
demonstrates the ways that transnational communities are involved
in shaping their experiences through narrative performances.
Jennifer B. Saunders demonstrates that narrative performances shape
participants' social realities in multiple ways: they define
identities, they create connections between community members
living on opposite sides of national borders, and they help create
new homes amidst increasing mobility. The narratives are religious
and include epic narratives such as excerpts from the Ramayana as
well as personal narratives with dharmic implications. Saunders'
analysis combines scholarly understandings of the ways in which
performances shape the contexts in which they are told, indigenous
comprehension of the power that reciting certain narratives can
have on those who hear them, and the theory that social imaginaries
define new social realities through expressing the aspirations of
communities. Imagining Religious Communities argues that this Hindu
community's religious narrative performances significantly
contribute to shaping their transnational lives.
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