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Mobile bodies, mobile souls : family, religion and migration in a global world / edited by Mikkel Rytter and Karen Fog Olwig.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olwig, Karen Fog
- Series:
- Proceedings of the Danish Institute in Damascus ; 7.
- Proceedings of the Danish Institute in Damascus ; 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emigration and immigration--Religious aspects--Congresses.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Immigrants--Religious life--Congresses.
- Immigrants.
- Identification (Religion)--Congresses.
- Identification (Religion).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- Mobile Bodies, Mobile Souls engages the complex relationship between family, religion and migration. Following '9/11', much research on migrants in western societies has focused on the public and political dimensions of religion. This volume starts out 'from below', exploring how religious ideas and practices take form, are negotiated and contested within the private domain of the home, household and family. Bringing together ethnographic studies from different parts of the world, it explores the role of religious ideas and practices in migrants' efforts to sustain, create and contest moral and social orders in the context of their everyday life. The ethnographic analyses show how religious practices and imaginaries both enable engagement with new social settings and offer a means of connecting and reconnecting with people and places left behind. Offering a comparative perspective on the varying ways in which religious practices and notions of relatedness interconnect and shape each other, the book sheds new light on a comtemporary global world inhabited by mobile bodies and souls.
- Contents:
- Introduction : family, religion and migration in a global world / Mikkel Rytter and Karen Fog Olwig
- The re-establishment of meaning and purpose : Mādri and Padre Muzhuh in the Punjabi diaspora / Roger Ballard
- Demonic migrations : the re-enchantment of middle-class life / Mikkel Rytter
- The moral landscape of Caribbean migration / Karen Fog Olwig
- With Mame Diarro Bousso in Spain : Senegalese migrant women in Tenerife / Eva Evers Rosander
- 'You want your children to become like you' : the transmission of religious practices among Iraqi families in Copenhagen / Marianne Holm Pedersen
- Learning to pray : religious socialization across generations and borders / Peggy Levitt, Melissa D. Barnett and Nancy A. Khalil
- The sound of silence : the reproduction and transformation of global conflicts within Palestinian families in Denmark / Anja Kublitz
- Band of brothers : spiritual kinship and religious organization in Peruvian migration / Karsten Paerregaard
- Field of tensions : Sufism, the republic and evil eyes in an Istanbul women's circle / Lea Svane
- A method whose times is due : mysticism, economics, and spritual kinship in a global Sufi movement / Nils Bubandt.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Proceedings of two conferences, one held Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2008 at the Danish Institute in Damascus, Syra, the other held Apr. 27-28 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- ISBN:
- 9788771244359
- 8771244352
- OCLC:
- 1316834184
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