Missions and Conversions: Creating the Montagnard-Dega Refugee Community
(Part of the Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1349379212
ISBN13:9781349379217
Release Date:November 2015
Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan
Length:241 Pages
Weight:0.66 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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