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Missions and Conversions: Creating the Montagnard-Dega Refugee Community

Missions and Conversions: Creating the Montagnard-Dega Refugee Community

Pearson, T.

Hardcover

Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion

AnthropologyAstronomy & SpaceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0230615368
ISBN13: 9780230615366
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jul 14 2009
Pages: 241
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
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.

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