How Rituals of Home Maintain Diasporic Communities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How Rituals of Home Maintain Diasporic Communities write by Köken Ergun. This book was released on 2020. How Rituals of Home Maintain Diasporic Communities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Gatherings In Diaspora
Gatherings In Diaspora - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gatherings In Diaspora write by Stephen Warner. This book was released on 1998-04-23. Gatherings In Diaspora available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gatherings in Diaspora brings together the latest chapters in the long-running chronicle of religion and immigration in the American experience. Today, as in the past, people migrating to the United States bring their religions with them, and their religious identities often mean more to them away from home, in their diaspora, than they did before. This book explores and analyzes the diverse religious communities of post-1965 diasporas: Christians, Hews, Muslims, Hindus, Rastafarians, and practitioners of Vodou, from countries such as China, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Iran, Jamaica, Korea, and Mexico. The contributors explore how, to a greater or lesser extent, immigrants and their offspring adapt their religious institutions to American conditions, often interacting with religious communities already established. The religious institutions they build, adapt, remodel, and adopt become worlds unto themselves, congregations, where new relations are forged within the community -- between men and women, parents and children, recent arrival and those longer settled.
Making Home in Diasporic Communities
Making Home in Diasporic Communities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Home in Diasporic Communities write by Diane Sabenacio Nititham. This book was released on 2016-11-03. Making Home in Diasporic Communities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Making Home in Diasporic Communities demonstrates the global scope of the Filipino diaspora, engaging wider scholarship on globalisation and the ways in which the dynamics of nation-state institutions, labour migration and social relationships intersect for transnational communities. Based on original ethnographic work conducted in Ireland and the Philippines, the book examines how Filipina diasporans socially and symbolically create a sense of ‘home’. On one hand, Filipinas can be seen as mobile, as they have crossed geographical borders and are physically located in the destination country. Yet, on the other hand, they are constrained by immigration policies, linguistic and cultural barriers and other social and cultural institutions. Through modalities of language, rituals and religion and food, the author examines the ways in which Filipinas orient their perceptions, expectations, practices and social spaces to ‘the homeland’, thus providing insight into larger questions of inclusion and exclusion for diasporic communities. By focusing on a range of Filipina experiences, including that of nurses, international students, religious workers and personal assistants, Making Home in Diasporic Communities explores the intersectionality of gender, race, class and belonging. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and anthropology as well as those with interests in gender, identity, migration, ethnic studies, and the construction of home.
Ritual, Identity, and the Mayan Diaspora
Ritual, Identity, and the Mayan Diaspora - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ritual, Identity, and the Mayan Diaspora write by Nancy J. Wellmeier. This book was released on 1998. Ritual, Identity, and the Mayan Diaspora available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyzes the lives and the continuing ritual traditions of the Mayas who live in the United States. Focusing on a predominantly Maya town in rural Florida, it shows how members of this ancient Central American civilization use their religious tradition to maintain their ethnic identity in an unfamiliar environment. Bringing together studies of Mesoamerican fiesta or cargo systems, religious ritual and migration studies, this interdisciplinary work describes the religious traditions of indigenous Guatemala, the crisis migration of the 1980s, and the Mayas' daily life in the United States, including Maya women's reflections on their new challenges. The book is unique in its focus on the transfer of the fiesta cycle to the diaspora and its analysis of the behind-the-scenes aspects of ritual. The rise of leadership, contested interpretations of ethnic identity, choices about symbolic representation, and maintenance of ties to villages of origin all take place in the context of organizing public ritual events. Through these strategies, the Maya people not only cope materially and spiritually with the chaotic experience of uprootedness, but find ways to strengthen their unique identity. Bibliography. Index.
Diaspora, Identity and Religion
Diaspora, Identity and Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diaspora, Identity and Religion write by Carolin Alfonso. This book was released on 2004-07-31. Diaspora, Identity and Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the development of the concept of diaspora and new perspectives on global networks and local identities. Features case histories on the Caribbean, Irish, Irish-American, Armenian, African and Greek diasporas.
