Transnational Religious Spaces

Faith and the Brazilian Migration Experience
2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-27281-2
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 4091 g

Reihe: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship

This book explores the role of religion in the lives of Brazilian migrants in London and on their return 'back home'. Working with the notion of religion as lived experience, it moves beyond rigid denominational boundaries and examines how and where religion is practiced in migrants' everyday lives.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sheringham, O.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. The Brazilian 'Diaspora' 2. Global, Transnational and Everyday Religion 3. Transnational Congregations 4. The 'Brazilian' Transnational Church: Social Hub and Sacred Space 5. Narratives of Religion-as-Lived (Transnationally) Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Olivia Sheringham is a Researcher at the International Migration Institute, University of Oxford, UK, and is on the Executive Committee of the Brazilians to the UK Research Group (GEB). She has published work in journals including Portuguese Studies and Geography Compass and has written chapters for a number of published and forthcoming edited collections.