Becker-Cantarino, Barbara.

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

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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


Electronic books.

BR127 .B384 2012

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