A Promised Land in the Diaspora: Christian Religion, Social Memory, and Identity Among Banabans in Fiji
Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: THE CONVENTIONAL UNDERSTANDING of diaspora was very much pegged \nto the forced emigration, dispersal, and exile of Jews living outside Palestinea \nconcept that is laden with religious connotations. More recently, however, \na somewhat expanded diaspora concept has been developed that is becoming \nthe analytic instrument of choice for a broad band of movements, \nmigration processes, transnational connections, and multiple identifications. \nSeveral authors have remarked that, ever since this new diaspora concept \nemerged, religion has rarely been given due consideration (Kokot, Tololyan, \nand Alfonso 2004, 6). Although quite a number of more recent studies of \ndiaspora would seem to disprove this claim (e.g., Cohen 1997, 1999; Gilroy \n1993; Gross, McMurray, and Swedenburg 1996; Pulis 1999; Tweed 1997; \nVertovec 1995, 2000; Werbner 2002), certainly there is something to the \nidea.
Author: W. Kempf
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2463045219