The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Migration - Paperback

by Rubina Ramji (Editor), Alison Marshall (Editor)

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Migration presents the story of religion and migration predominantly through the experiences of Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus and Buddhists, considering intersectional issues including race, ethnicity, class, gender and generation throughout.

Many chapters are grounded in embodied ethnography including participant observation fieldwork, interviews, oral history collections and qualitative analysis, drawing on sociological and anthropological theory, as well as non-western and historical approaches to religion. Chapters also chronicle migration in regional, transnational, multicultural and populist contexts, examining everyday religiosity and religion across generations. The volume includes chapters on Islam and Muslim identity, Chinese and Vietnamese Buddhism, Filipino and Korean religiosity and Polish Catholicism.

Author Biography

Rubina Ramji is Associate Professor of Religion at Cape Breton University, Canada. She is Chair of the Religion and Migration Group of the American Academy of Religion (2016 - present), and is former President of the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion.

Alison Marshall is Professor of Religion at Brandon University, Canada. She was co-chair of the Religion and Migration Group at the American Academy of Religion for five years.