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Missions and conversions : creating the Montagnard-Dega refugee community / Thomas Pearson.
Penn Museum Library DS556.45.M6 P43 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pearson, Thomas.
- Series:
- Contemporary anthropology of religion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Montagnards (Vietnamese people)--Religion.
- Montagnards (Vietnamese people).
- Montagnards (Vietnamese people)--Relocation--North Carolina.
- Montagnards (Vietnamese people)--Cultural assimilation--North Carolina.
- Vietnamese Americans--North Carolina--Religion.
- Vietnamese Americans.
- Vietnamese Americans--Cultural assimilation--North Carolina.
- Vietnamese Americans--North Carolina--Ethnic identity.
- Christianity and other religions--North Carolina.
- Christianity and other religions.
- Christianity and culture--North Carolina.
- Christianity and culture.
- Ethnicity.
- Vietnamese Americans--Cultural assimilation.
- Religion.
- Assimilation (Sociology).
- North Carolina.
- Physical Description:
- x, 241 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Summary:
- 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."
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction and Afterword 1
- 2 Representing the Montagnards 19
- 3 The Conversion of the Dega 63
- 4 Conversion to Refugees 93
- 5 Sickness, Sin, and Animal Sacrifice 117
- 6 Hearts and Minds 141
- 7 The Conversion of the Special Forces 173.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230615366
- 0230615368
- OCLC:
- 265731723
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