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Diaspora, identity, and religion [electronic resource] : new directions in theory and research / edited by Waltraud Kokot, Khachig Tölölyan and Carolin Alfonso.

Contributor(s): Publication details: London ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2004.Description: viii, 211 pISBN:
  • 9780203401057
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Contents:
Deconstructing and comparing diasporas / William Safran -- Diasporic spatiality and the question of identity / Avtar Brah -- Identity politics, history, and locality -- "Too close for comfort" : remembering the forgotten diaspora of Irish women in England / Breda Gray -- Place, movement, and identity : processes of inclusion and exclusion in a Caribbean family / Karen Fog Olwig -- Why locality matters : diaspora consciousness and sedentariness in the Armenian diaspora in Greece / Susanne Schwalgin -- Past and present in the history of modern Greek diaspora / Ioannis K. Hassiotis -- Griots, roots, and identity in the African diaspora / Hauke Dorsch -- The invention of history in the Irish American diaspora : myths of the great famine / Astrid Wonneberger -- Diasporic aspects of religion -- Religion or culture? : concepts of identity in the Alevi diaspora / Martin Sökefeld -- A double minority : notes on the emerging Yezidi diaspora / Andreas Ackermann -- A diachronic view at diaspora, the significance of religion, and Hindu Trinidadians / Martin Baumann -- They prayed in Brazil and it rained in Boston : Dominican and Brazilian transnational religious life / Peggy Levitt -- Let it flow : economy, spirituality, and gender in the Sindhi network / Dieter Haller.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-204) and index.

Deconstructing and comparing diasporas / William Safran -- Diasporic spatiality and the question of identity / Avtar Brah -- Identity politics, history, and locality -- "Too close for comfort" : remembering the forgotten diaspora of Irish women in England / Breda Gray -- Place, movement, and identity : processes of inclusion and exclusion in a Caribbean family / Karen Fog Olwig -- Why locality matters : diaspora consciousness and sedentariness in the Armenian diaspora in Greece / Susanne Schwalgin -- Past and present in the history of modern Greek diaspora / Ioannis K. Hassiotis -- Griots, roots, and identity in the African diaspora / Hauke Dorsch -- The invention of history in the Irish American diaspora : myths of the great famine / Astrid Wonneberger -- Diasporic aspects of religion -- Religion or culture? : concepts of identity in the Alevi diaspora / Martin Sökefeld -- A double minority : notes on the emerging Yezidi diaspora / Andreas Ackermann -- A diachronic view at diaspora, the significance of religion, and Hindu Trinidadians / Martin Baumann -- They prayed in Brazil and it rained in Boston : Dominican and Brazilian transnational religious life / Peggy Levitt -- Let it flow : economy, spirituality, and gender in the Sindhi network / Dieter Haller.

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