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Mobile bodies, mobile souls : family, religion and migration in a global world / edited by Mikkel Rytter and Karen Fog Olwig.

Contributor(s): Rytter, Mikkel | Olwig, Karen Fog, 1948-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Proceedings of the Danish Institute in Damascus: 7.Publisher: Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9788779344280 (pbk.); 8779344283 (pbk.)Subject(s): Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects -- Congresses | Immigrants -- Religious life -- Congresses | Identification (Religion) -- CongressesDDC classification: 304.8 LOC classification: JV6225 | .M635 2011Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : family, religion and migration in a global world / Mikkel Rytter and Karen Fog Olwig -- The re-establishment of meaning and purpose : Mādri and Padre Muzhuh in the Punjabi diaspora / Roger Ballard -- Demonic migrations : the re-enchantment of middle-class life / Mikkel Rytter -- The moral landscape of Caribbean migration / Karen Fog Olwig -- With Mame Diarro Bousso in Spain : Senegalese migrant women in Tenerife / Eva Evers Rosander -- 'You want your children to become like you' : the transmission of religious practices among Iraqi families in Copenhagen / Marianne Holm Pedersen -- Learning to pray : religious socialization across generations and borders / Peggy Levitt, Melissa D. Barnett and Nancy A. Khalil -- The sound of silence : the reproduction and transformation of global conflicts within Palestinian families in Denmark / Anja Kublitz -- Band of brothers : spiritual kinship and religious organization in Peruvian migration / Karsten Paerregaard -- Field of tensions : Sufism, the republic and evil eyes in an Istanbul women's circle / Lea Svane -- A method whose times is due : mysticism, economics, and spritual kinship in a global Sufi movement / Nils Bubandt.

Proceedings of two conferences, one held Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2008 at the Danish Institute in Damascus, Syria, the other held Apr. 27-28 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : family, religion and migration in a global world / Mikkel Rytter and Karen Fog Olwig -- The re-establishment of meaning and purpose : Mādri and Padre Muzhuh in the Punjabi diaspora / Roger Ballard -- Demonic migrations : the re-enchantment of middle-class life / Mikkel Rytter -- The moral landscape of Caribbean migration / Karen Fog Olwig -- With Mame Diarro Bousso in Spain : Senegalese migrant women in Tenerife / Eva Evers Rosander -- 'You want your children to become like you' : the transmission of religious practices among Iraqi families in Copenhagen / Marianne Holm Pedersen -- Learning to pray : religious socialization across generations and borders / Peggy Levitt, Melissa D. Barnett and Nancy A. Khalil -- The sound of silence : the reproduction and transformation of global conflicts within Palestinian families in Denmark / Anja Kublitz -- Band of brothers : spiritual kinship and religious organization in Peruvian migration / Karsten Paerregaard -- Field of tensions : Sufism, the republic and evil eyes in an Istanbul women's circle / Lea Svane -- A method whose times is due : mysticism, economics, and spritual kinship in a global Sufi movement / Nils Bubandt.

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