Missions and Conversions : Creating the Montagnard-Dega Refugee Community

Name: Missions and Conversions
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
SKU: 9781349379217
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ISBN: 9781349379217

1st ed. 2009

by T. Pearson

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Contemporary Anthropology of Religion

ISBN-10 1349379212

ISBN-13 9781349379217

Edition 1st ed. 2009

Publisher Palgrave Macmillan

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 8th, 2015

Print length 241 Pages

Product Classification: Christianity Cultural studies Social groups: religious groups and communities Cultural studies Religious groups: social & cultural aspects Sociology Sociology: customs & traditions Anthropology Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography Social and cultural anthropology Astronomy, space & time Astronomy, space and time Christianity

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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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