Ritual Change and Social Transformation in Migrant Societies

by Hans-Georg Soeffner (Editor), Darius Zifonun (Editor)

Overview

This volume includes studies of ritual change and social transformation in Singapore, Germany and the US. It focuses on the changes and adjustments of rituals in times of migration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631636657
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	03/29/2016
Pages:	142
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Hans-Georg Soeffner is Professor Emeritus at the University of Konstanz and Head of Research Area Interculturality at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI Essen).
Dariuš Zifonun is Professor of Sociology at the University of Marburg.

Table of Contents

Contents: Hans-Georg Soeffner/Dariuš Zifonun: Preface – Hans-Georg Soeffner: Fragile Pluralism – Dariuš Zifonun: Migration and Religion: Beyond Ethnic Community and Ethclass – Tong Chee Kiong: Modernity and Ritual Transformations in Chinese Ancestor Worship – Kenji Kuroda/Atsuko Tsubakihara: Migration and Reconfiguration of Religious Rituals: The Case of Iranians in Southern California – Bernt Schnettler/Bernd Rebstein/Maria Pusoma: The Topos of Cultural Diversity: On the Communicative Construction of «Intermediate Worlds» of Migrant Reality – Dariuš Zifonun: Intercultural Stereotypes: Ethnic Inequality as a System of Social Order in the Soccer Milieu.