Missions and Conversions : Creating the Montagnard-Dega Refugee Community
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T. Pearson
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
ISBN-10
0230615368
ISBN-13
9780230615366
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 14th, 2009
Print length
241 Pages
Product Classification:
ChristianityCultural studiesSocial groups: religious groups and communitiesCultural studiesReligious groups: social & cultural aspectsSociologySociology: customs & traditionsAnthropologySocial & cultural anthropology, ethnographySocial and cultural anthropologyAstronomy, space & timeAstronomy, space and timeChristianity
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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.
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."
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