Christian Transatlantic Missions, Islamic Migration to Germany Becker-Cantarino, Barbara. creator text Electronic books. ne Amsterdam Editions Rodopi 2012 monographic eng

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1 online resource (245 p.) 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 Description based upon print version of record. 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 BR127 .B384 2012 240.1 9789401208116 (electronic bk.) 9401208115 (electronic bk.) http://www.msvu.ca:2048/login?url=http://www.msvu.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=995764 http://www.msvu.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=995764 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=476506 http://www.msvu.ca:2048/login?url=http://www.msvu.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=995764 http://www.msvu.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=995764 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=476506 MHW 120823 20200709055556.0 ocn809771248 eng