Migration and religion in East Asia : North Korean migrants' evangelical encounters / Jin-Heon Jung, Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany.
1. Introduction: North Korean Migrants and Contact Zones -- 2. Evangelical Nationalism in Divided Korea -- 3. North Korean Crossing and Christian Encounters -- 4. Heroes and Citizens: Becoming North Koreans in the South -- 5. The Freedom School -- 6. Narrativization of Christian Passage -- 7. Conclusion: Free to Be.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.