Migration and Religion

Christian Transatlantic Missions, Islamic Migration to Germany
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-420-3536-2
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 46, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

Reihe: Chloe

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Becker-Cantarino, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Leben & Praxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Der Islam und die Moderne (Westliche) Welt
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Historische Migrationsforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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