Jung / Bach Migration and Religion in East Asia

North Korean Migrants’ Evangelical Encounters
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-45039-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 194 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Global Diversities

This book sheds light on North Korean migrants' Christian encounters and conversions throughout the process of migration and settlement. Focusing on churches as primary contact zones, it highlights the ways in which the migrants and their evangelical counterparts both draw on and contest each others' envisioning of a reunified Christianized Korea.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jung, Jin-Heon

Bach, Daniel

Über Autor(innen)

Jin-Heon Jung received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States, and is currently a Research Fellow and the Seoul Project coordinator at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany. His publications include Building Noah's Ark for Refugees, Migrants, and Religious Communities (co-edited, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Multiculturalism in Korea: A Critical Review (co-authored, 2007, in Korean), and My Friends from North Korea (co-authored, 2002, in Korean).