Jin-Heon Jung 
Building Noah’s Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities 

Building Noah’s Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities examines religion within the framework of refugee studies as a public good, with the spiritual and material use of religion shedding new light on the agency of refugees in reconstructing their lives and positioning themselves in hostile environments.

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Introduction: Refugees and Religion; Alexander Horstmann and Jin-Heon Jung PART I 1. What is a Refugee Religion? Exile, Exodus and Emigration in the Vietnamese Diaspora; Janet Hoskins 2. Religious Imaginary as an Alternative Social and Moral Order: Karen Buddhism across the Thai-Burma Border; Mikael Gravers 3. Refugee and Religious Narratives: The Conversion of North Koreans from Refugees to God’s Warriors; Jin-Heon Jung 4. Ritual Practice, Material Culture, and Wellbeing in Displacement: Ka-thow-bòw in a Karenni Refugee Camp in Thailand; Sandra Dudley PART II 5. Secular and Religious Sanctuaries: Interfaces of Humanitarianism and Self-Government of Karen Refugee-Migrants in Thai Burmese Border Spaces; Alexander Horstmann 6. Conflicting Missions? The Politics of Evangelical Humanitarianism in the Sahrawi and Palestinian Protracted Refugee Situations; Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh 7. Humanitarian Adhocracy, Transnational New Apostolic Missions, and Evangelical Anti-Dependency in a Haitian Refugee Camp; Elizabeth Mc Alister PART III 8. Palestinian Steadfastness as a Mission; Leonardo Schiocchet 9. Conversion and Community among Iu Mien Refugee Immigrants in the United States; Hjorleifur Jonsson 10. Faith in Ethnicity: The Homeland Ties and Diasporic Formation of Vietnamese Caodaists in the United States and Cambodia; Thien-Huong Ninh

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Sandra Dudley, University of Leicester, UK Elena Fiddian-Quasmiyeh, University of Oxford, UK Mikael Gravers, Aarhus University, Denmark Janet Hoskins, University of Southern California, USA Hjorleifur Jonsson, Arizona State University, USA Elizabeth Mc Alister, Wesleyan University, USA Thien-Huong Nihn, University of Southern California, USA Leonardo Schiocchet, Boston University, USA