Religion, Diaspora and Cultural Identity
Religion, Diaspora and Cultural Identity

Author: J.W. Pulis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-02

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 1134390629

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Although the religions of the Caribbean have been a subject of popular media, there have been few ethnographic publications. This text is a much-needed and long overdue addition to Caribbean studies and the exploration of ideas, beliefs, and religious practices of Caribbean folk in diaspora and at home. Drawing upon ethnographic and historical research in a variety of contexts and settings, the contributors to this volume explore the relationship between religious and social life. Whether practiced at home or abroad, the contributors contend that the religions of Caribbean folk are dynamic and creative endeavors that have mediated the ongoing and open-ended relation between local and global, historical and contemporary change.

Diaspora, Identity and Religion
Diaspora, Identity and Religion

Author: Carolin Alfonso

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-07-31

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 113439036X

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Examines the development of the concept of diaspora and new perspectives on global networks and local identities. Features case histories on the Caribbean, Irish, Irish-American, Armenian, African and Greek diasporas.

Religion, Diaspora and Cultural Identity
Religion, Diaspora and Cultural Identity

Author: J.W. Pulis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-02

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 1134390696

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Although the religions of the Caribbean have been a subject of popular media, there have been few ethnographic publications. This text is a much-needed and long overdue addition to Caribbean studies and the exploration of ideas, beliefs, and religious practices of Caribbean folk in diaspora and at home. Drawing upon ethnographic and historical research in a variety of contexts and settings, the contributors to this volume explore the relationship between religious and social life. Whether practiced at home or abroad, the contributors contend that the religions of Caribbean folk are dynamic and creative endeavors that have mediated the ongoing and open-ended relation between local and global, historical and contemporary change.

Muslim Diaspora
Muslim Diaspora

Author: Haideh Moghissi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-01-24

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1135985413

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This book charts the experiences of the Islamic diaspora around the world. It incorporates a broad range of case studies and includes issues such as identity, religious background and gender.

Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora
Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora

Author: William Ackah

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-05

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1315466198

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Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora explores the ways in which religious ideas and beliefs continue to play a crucial role in the lives of people of African descent. The chapters in this volume use historical and contemporary examples to show how people of African descent develop and engage with spiritual rituals, organizations and practices to make sense of their lives, challenge injustices and creatively express their spiritual imaginings. This book poses and answers the following critical questions: To what extent are ideas of spirituality emanating from Africa and the diaspora still influenced by an African aesthetic? What impact has globalisation had on spiritual and cultural identities of peoples on African descendant peoples? And what is the utility of the practices and social organizations that house African spiritual expression in tackling social, political cultural and economic inequities? The essays in this volume reveal how spirituality weaves and intersects with issues of gender, class, sexuality and race across Africa and the diaspora. It will appeal to researchers and postgraduate students interested in the study of African religions, race and religion, sociology of religion and anthropology.

Religion and Identity in the South Asian Diaspora
Religion and Identity in the South Asian Diaspora

Author: Rajesh Rai

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1351551590

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Religious identity constitutes a key element in the formation, development and sustenance of South Asian diasporic communities. Through studies of South Asian communities situated in multiple locales, this book explores the role of religious identity in the social and political organization of the diaspora. It accounts for the factors that underlie the modification of ritual practice in the process of resettlement, and considers how multicultural policies in the adopted state, trans-generational changes and the proliferation of transnational media has impacted the development of these identities in the diaspora. Also crucial is the gender dimension, in terms of how religion and caste affect women’s roles in the South Asian diaspora. What emerges then from the way separate communities in the diaspora negotiate religion are diverse patterns that are strategic and contingent. Yet, paradoxically, the dynamic and evolving relationship between religion and diaspora becomes necessary, even imperative, for sustaining a cohesive collective identity in these communities. This bookw as published as a special issue of South Asian Diaspora.

Essential Essays, Volume 2
Essential Essays, Volume 2

Author: Stuart Hall

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2018-12-06

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1478002719

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From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race and identity in the 1990s and early 2000s, Stuart Hall has been central to shaping many of the cultural and political debates of our time. Essential Essays—a landmark two-volume set—brings together Stuart Hall's most influential and foundational works. Spanning the whole of his career, these volumes reflect the breadth and depth of his intellectual and political projects while demonstrating their continued vitality and importance. Volume 2: Identity and Diaspora draws from Hall's later essays, in which he investigated questions of colonialism, empire, and race. It opens with “Gramsci's Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity,” which frames the volume and finds Hall rethinking received notions of racial essentialism. In addition to essays on multiculturalism and globalization, black popular culture, and Western modernity's racial underpinnings, Volume 2 contains three interviews with Hall, in which he reflects on his life to theorize his identity as a colonial and diasporic subject.

Selected Writings on Race and Difference
Selected Writings on Race and Difference

Author: Stuart Hall

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2021-04-02

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1478021225

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In Selected Writings on Race and Difference, editors Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore gather more than twenty essays by Stuart Hall that highlight his extensive and groundbreaking engagement with race, representation, identity, difference, and diaspora. Spanning the whole of his career, this collection includes classic theoretical essays such as “The Whites of Their Eyes” (1981) and “Race, the Floating Signifier” (1997). It also features public lectures, political articles, and popular pieces that circulated in periodicals and newspapers, which demonstrate the breadth and depth of Hall's contribution to public discourses of race. Foregrounding how and why the analysis of race and difference should be concrete and not merely descriptive, this collection gives organizers and students of social theory ways to approach the interconnections of race with culture and consciousness, state and society, policing and freedom.

Gatherings In Diaspora
Gatherings In Diaspora

Author: Stephen Warner

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 1998-04-23

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 156639614X

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Gatherings in Diaspora brings together the latest chapters in the long-running chronicle of religion and immigration in the American experience. Today, as in the past, people migrating to the United States bring their religions with them, and their religious identities often mean more to them away from home, in their diaspora, than they did before. This book explores and analyzes the diverse religious communities of post-1965 diasporas: Christians, Hews, Muslims, Hindus, Rastafarians, and practitioners of Vodou, from countries such as China, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Iran, Jamaica, Korea, and Mexico. The contributors explore how, to a greater or lesser extent, immigrants and their offspring adapt their religious institutions to American conditions, often interacting with religious communities already established. The religious institutions they build, adapt, remodel, and adopt become worlds unto themselves, congregations, where new relations are forged within the community -- between men and women, parents and children, recent arrival and those longer settled.

Religion, Diaspora and Cultural Identity
Religion, Diaspora and Cultural Identity

Author: John W. Pulis

Publisher: Gordon & Breach Publishing Group

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 9789057005466

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Although the religions of the Caribbean have been a subject of popular media, there have been few ethnographic publications. This text is a much-needed & long overdue addition to Caribbean studies & the exploration of ideas, beliefs & religious practices of Caribbean folk in diaspora & at home. Drawing upon ethnographic & historical research in a variety of contexts & settings, the contributors to this volume explore the relationship between religious & social life. Whether practiced at home or abroad, the contributors contend that the religions of Caribbean folk are dynamic & creative endeavors that have mediated the ongoing & open-ended relation between local & global, historical & contemporary change.