Building Noah’s Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction Refugees and Religion

   1. Introduction Refugees and Religion

      • Alexander Horstmann, Jin-Heon Jung

      Pages 1-20

3. Part I

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. What Is a Refugee Religion? Exile, Exodus, and Emigration in the Vietnamese Diaspora

      • Janet Alison Hoskins

      Pages 23-44

   3. Religious Imaginary as an Alternative Social and Moral Order—Karen Buddhism across the Thai-Burma Border

      • Mikael Gravers

      Pages 45-76

   4. Refugee and Religious Narratives: The Conversion of North Koreans from Refugees to God’s Warriors

      • Jin-Heon Jung

      Pages 77-100

   5. Ritual Practice, Material Culture, and Well-Being in Displacement: Ka-thow-bòw in a Karenni Refugee Camp in Thailand

      • Sandra H. Dudley

      Pages 101-126

4. Part II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127

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   2. Secular and Religious Sanctuaries: Interfaces of Humanitarianism and Self-Government of Karen Refugee-Migrants in Thai-Burmese Border Spaces

      • Alexander Horstmann

      Pages 129-156

   3. Conflicting Missions? The Politics of Evangelical Humanitarianism in the Sahrawi and Palestinian Protracted Refugee Situations

      • Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh

      Pages 157-179

   4. Humanitarian Ad-Hocracy, Transnational New Apostolic Missions, and Evangelical Anti-dependency in a Haitian Refugee Camp

      • Elizabeth McAlister

      Pages 181-206

5. Part III

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207

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   2. Palestinian Steadfastness as a Mission

      • Leonardo Schiocchet

      Pages 209-234

   3. Conversion and Community among Iu Mien Refugee Immigrants in the United States

      • Hjorleifur Jonsson

      Pages 235-256

   4. Faith in Ethnicity: The Homeland Ties and Diasporic Formation of Vietnamese Caodaists in the United States and Cambodia

      • Thien-Huong Ninh

      Pages 257-280

6. Back Matter

   Pages 281-288

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Building Noah's Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities examines religion within the framework of refugee studies as a public good, with the spiritual and material use of religion shedding new light on the agency of refugees in reconstructing their lives and positioning themselves in hostile environments.  

• Refugee
• religion
• Christianity
• Noah's Ark
• mobility
• migration
• community
• diaspora

“The diverse case studies, comprising both Abrahamic faiths and less familiar Eastern religious traditions, draw attention to the agency of forced migrants as they negotiate their experiences of exile. Both practitioners in the humanitarian field and students interested in religion and migration will be given much food for thought through the insights presented in this volume.” (Tahir Zaman, Journal of Refugee Studies, Vo. 29 (3), September, 2016)

Sandra Dudley, University of Leicester, UK Elena Fiddian-Quasmiyeh, University of Oxford, UK Mikael Gravers, Aarhus University, Denmark Janet Hoskins, University of Southern California, USA Hjorleifur Jonsson, Arizona State University, USA Elizabeth McAlister, Wesleyan University, USA Thien-Huong Nihn, University of Southern California, USA Leonardo Schiocchet, Boston University, USA   

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