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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Horstmann, Alexander
• Bernardo E. Brown
• Brenda S.A. Yeoh
• Brown, Bernardo
• Yeoh, Brenda S.A

Titel

Helping the Wounded as Religious Experience: The Free Burma Rangers in Karen State, Myanmar

Ist Teil von

• Asian Migrants and Religious Experience, 2018, Vol.2, p.201-218

Ort / Verlag

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The intersection between migration, religion, and globalization is among the most exciting debates in current migration studies (Csordas 2009). In our recent publication,Building Noah’s Ark(Horstmann & Jung 2015), we follow up on the work by Mark Johnson & Pnina Werbner (2010), Aihwa Ong (2003), Peggy Levitt (2007) and Pnina Werbner (2003) to illustrate the centrality of religion in strategies of emplacement and navigation. Religion, we argue, is a lens for understanding the efforts that are invested in transforming strange and hostile environments into more docile and peaceful ones. Religion can be seen as a privileged site through which to study