Migration and Religion Christian Transatlantic Missions, Islamic Migration to Germany. [electronic resource] :
- Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2012.
- 1 online resource (245 p.)
- Chloe - Beihefte zum Daphnis ; v.46 .
- Chloe ; Bd. 46. .
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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
Christianity and other religions. Muslims--Non-Muslim countries. Muslims--Germany. Emigration and immigration--Religious aspects. Christianity and other religions. Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects. Muslims -- Germany. Muslims -- Non-Muslim countries. RELIGION / Christian Life / General