Missions and Conversions

T. Pearson

ISBN 10: 0230615368 / ISBN 13: 9780230615366

Editore: SPRINGER NATURE Jul 2009, 2009

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -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.' 241 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: Missions and Conversions
• Editore: SPRINGER NATURE Jul 2009
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0230615368
• ISBN 13: 9780230615366
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 211 L x 140 A x 18 P (millimetri) 211 millimetri di larghezza per 140 millimetri di altezza per 18 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 386 grammi

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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."

Informazioni sull?autore

THOMAS PEARSON is Associate Director of the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion at Wabash College, USA.