Missions and Conversions: Creating the Montagnard-Dega Refugee Community

by Thomas Pearson

Book Overview

This study offers a fresh reading of religious conversion by analyzing a variety of "missionaries" that sought to influence the Montagnard-Dega refugee. Thomas Pearson uses ethnographic and archival research to tell the story of cross-cultural contact in the highlands during the Vietnam War, Christian conversion, refugee exile, and the formation of the Dega refugee community in the United States. His insightful study considers not just evangelicals...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230615368
• ISBN13: 9780230615366
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"