9781349379217

Missions and Conversions

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ISBN13: 9781349379217

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Overview

This study offers a fresh reading of religious conversion by analyzing a variety of "missionaries" that sought to influence the Montagnard-Dega refugee. Thomas Pearson uses ethnographic and archival research to tell the story of cross-cultural contact in the highlands during the Vietnam War, Christian conversion, refugee exile, and the formation of the Dega refugee community in the United States. His insightful study considers not just evangelicals and Catholics, but humanitarian workers in the highlands, refugee resettlement volunteers in the United States, and the American Special Forces soldiers. This book makes the case that the Dega have appropriated the anthropological and religious discourses of this disparate group of missionaries to recreate themselves through a multivalent "conversion."

ISBN-13

9781349379217

ISBN-10

1349379212

Weight

0.66 Pounds

Dimensions

5.51 x 0.58 x 8.50 In

List Price

$54.99

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

xii, 241 pages

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Published On

2015-11-08



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