Description: Migration and Religion in East Asia by Jin-Heon Jung 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Author Biography Jin-Heon Jung received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States, and is currently a Research Fellow and the Seoul Project coordinator at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany. His publications include Building Noahs Ark for Refugees, Migrants, and Religious Communities (co-edited, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Multiculturalism in Korea: A Critical Review (co-authored, 2007, in Korean), and My Friends from North Korea (co-authored, 2002, in Korean). Table of Contents 1. Introduction: North Korean Migrants and Contact Zones 2. The Politics of South Korean Evangelical Nationalism 3. Perilous Crossing: North Koreans Christian Encounters in the Sino-North Korean Border Area 4. Heroes to Regular Citizens: The Politics of North Korean Migrants Subjectivities 5. Ideal Body, True Christians: The Freedom School 6. Narrativization of Christian Passage: From Refugees to Gods Warriors 7. Conclusion: Free to Be Review "This absorbing study, unparalleled in modern migration studies, is based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in South Korea and Chinese-North Korean borderlands, and on North Korean migrants narratives of Christian conversion. Brilliantly described is how, while repression and poverty drive defection, Christianity provides aspirations and the promise of church welfare in South Korea." - David Parkin, University of Oxford, UK"Migration and Religion in East Asia is a sensitive ethnography of the complex relations between North Korean migrant-refugees and South Korean Protestant Christians. Drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork involving missionary churches in northern China and a Pentecostal Freedom School in Seoul, Jin-Heon Jung shows how North Korean migrant-refugees learn to locate themselves within a Cold War, evangelical, ethnonational soteriology by converting to Christianity and equating capitalist freedom with a new doctrine of individual "self-reliance." - Nicholas Harkness, Harvard University, USA"In this book, Jin-Heon Jung explores interactions between North Korean migrants and South Korean Evangelicals [...]. This is a set of topics that have been woefully understudied; for taking them on, the author deserves our applause." - Timothy S. Lee, Texas Christian University, USA"Jung has given us a fascinating account of how human life trajectories are constituted by conversion from Communism to Christianity in the dangerous move from North Korea to South Korea. This book brings us close to lived experience within the changing context of North-South relations in Korea. It highlights the politics of Christianity as well as the aftermath of the Korean War and is thus a must read for anyone interested in Asia, religion, and international relations." - Peter van der Veer, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious & Ethnic Diversity, Germany Long Description Since the mid-1990s when North Korea was gripped by a devastating famine, increasing numbers of North Korean migrants have been crossing the Sino-North Korean border en route to Seoul, South Korea, in search of a better life. Based on fieldwork conducted in Seoul and Northeast China, Migration and Religion in East Asia 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 nation-state. Analysing the intersections between religious and political conversion and physical migration, it scrutinises cultural understandings of identity politics, religio-political aspirations, competing discourses on humanitarianism, and freedom in both religious and national terms in the context of late-Cold War Korea. Review Quote "This absorbing study, unparalleled in modern migration studies, is based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in South Korea and Chinese-North Korean borderlands, and on North Korean migrants narratives of Christian conversion. Brilliantly described is how, while repression and poverty drive defection, Christianity provides aspirations and the promise of church welfare in South Korea." - David Parkin, University of Oxford, UK Details ISBN113745038X Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Series Global Diversities Year 2015 ISBN-10 113745038X ISBN-13 9781137450388 Format Hardcover Short Title MIGRATION & RELIGION IN EAST A Language English Media Book Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 194 Edition 1st Illustrations XVIII, 194 p. DOI 10.1057/9781137450395 AU Release Date 2015-09-17 NZ Release Date 2015-09-17 UK Release Date 2015-09-17 Publication Date 2015-09-17 Author Jin-Heon Jung Edition Description 1st ed. 2015 Subtitle North Korean Migrants Evangelical Encounters Alternative 9781349566730 DEWEY 305.8095193 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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Book Title: Migration and Religion in East Asia: North Korean Migrants' Evangelical Encounters
Item Height: 216mm
Item Width: 140mm
Author: Jin-Heon Jung
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Sociology, Transportation, Christianity
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Year: 2015
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 3747g
Number of Pages: 194 Pages