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Migration and Religion

Christian Transatlantic Missions, Islamic Migration to Germany

 

Edited by Barbara Becker-Cantarino

 

Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York, NY 2012. VI, 244 pp. (Chloe 46)

ISBN: 978-90-420-3536-2                                 Bound

ISBN: 978-94-012-0811-6                                 E-Book

Online info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=CHLOE+46

 

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 look at Muslim populations in Germany. They provide an insight into the ongoing discussions in Germany about modern migration and the role of religion. This volume is of interest to all who are engaged in issues of historical and contemporary migration, in Cultural and German Studies.

 

Contents

Preface

Barbara Becker-Cantarino: Religion and Migration: Christian Missionaries in North America, Muslim Populations in Germany

Wolfgang Breul: Theological Tenets and Motives of Mission: August Hermann Francke, Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf

Pia Schmid: Indians Observed: Moravian Missionary John Heckewelder’s Account of the History, Manners, and Customs of the Indian Nations (1819)

Ulrike Gleixner: Remapping the World: The Vision of a Protestant Empire in the Eighteenth Century

Ulrike Strasser: From “German India” to the Spanish Indies and Back: Jesuit Migrations Abroad and Their Effects at Home

Cornelia Niekus Moore: “A Source of Praise”: The Wanderings of a Devotional Book

Rebekka Habermas: Islam Debates around 1900: Colonies in Africa, Muslims in Berlin, and the Role of Missionaries and Orientalists

Claudia Breger: Christian Universalism? Racism and Collective Identity in Twenty-First-Century Immigration Discourses

David Gramling: “You Pray Like We Have Fun”: Toward a Phenomenology of Secular Islam

Kamaal Haque: Iranian, Afghan, and Pakistani Migrants in Germany: Muslim Populations Beyond Turks and Arabs

Thomas Schmitt: Mosque Debates as Space-Related, Intercultural, and Religious Conflict

Karl Ivan Solibakke: Muslim Migration to Germany: A Response to Thilo Sarrazin, Deutschland schafft sich ab

List of Contributors

Index

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