Migration and Religion in East Asia: North Korean Migrants’ Evangelical Encounters

✍ Scribed by Jin-Heon Jung (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 213
Series: Global Diversities
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction: North Korean Migrants and Contact Zones....Pages 1-23
Evangelical Nationalism in Divided Korea....Pages 24-52
North Korean Crossing and Christian Encounters....Pages 53-69
Heroes and Citizens: Becoming North Koreans in the South....Pages 70-93
The Freedom School....Pages 94-117
Narrativization of Christian Passage....Pages 118-132
Conclusion: Free to Be....Pages 133-152
Back Matter....Pages 153-194

✦ Subjects

Asian Culture; Sociology, general; Christianity; Migration; Political Science; Social Structure, Social Inequality

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