Abstract
This chapter introduces the collection of essays presented in the book,
starting by describing the challenging and exploratory meaning of the relationship
between family, religion, and immigration. In the European landscape, only recently
has the religion of migrants started to be investigated in new ways, that are careful
to grasp the complexity of the religious experience and to avoid pre-conceived and
stereotyped readings: a sort of “normalisation” in the approach to the topic, fed by
both migration studies and religion studies. The chapter presents a reading of a
selected sample of recent studies, adopting an approach based on the de-
instrumentalization of religion and on the re-humanization of migrants, enabling
them to express their subjective outlook on their own experience and on the
significance of religious belonging. Lastly, the contents of the following chapters
are presented and discussed.
Lingua originale | English |
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Titolo della pubblicazione ospite | Migrant Families and Religious Belonging |
Editor | Giovanni Giulio Valtolina, Laura Zanfrini |
Pagine | 1-31 |
Numero di pagine | 31 |
DOI | |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2023 |
Keywords
- immigration, family, religion, interreligious relations, diversity, European identity