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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823667303321

Autore

Zander Viktor

Titolo

Identity and marginality among new Australians : religion and ethnicity in Victoria's Slavic Baptist community / / Viktor Zander

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York : , : Walter de Gruyter, , [2004]

©2004

ISBN

3-11-090243-5

Edizione

[Reprint 2012]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Religion and society ; ; v. 39

Classificazione

LB 48680

Disciplina

305.6/861945/089917

Soggetti

Baptists - Australia - Victoria - History

Emigration and immigration - Religious aspects

Identification (Religion)

Immigrants - Religious life - Australia

Marginality, Social - Australia

Australia Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-317) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Foreword / Donskikh, Oleg -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1: Theoretical and Methodological Approach to Identity and Marginality and Its Application to the Slavic Baptist Community -- CHAPTER 2: Principles of Formation of the Main Groups within the Slavic Baptist Community and Their Description -- CHAPTER 3: Basic Attitudes to Ethnic and Religious Issues as Pointers to Identity and Marginality -- CHAPTER 4: Objectification: The Image and Understanding of God in the Identification Process -- CHAPTER 5: Ritual: Participation in Church Activities As a Manifestation of Religiosity -- CHAPTER 6: Identity and Marginality Unveiled through Commitment to the Ethnic Church -- CHAPTER 7: Identity and Marginality in the Light of Theory and Data -- APPENDIX 1: Concise History of Russian Protestantism: The Origin of Religious Marginality -- APPENDIX 2: Tables with Data from Interviews -- APPENDIX 3: Interview of a First-wave Immigrants' Child -- Bibliography -- Index of Names and Subjects -- Index of Modern Authors



Sommario/riassunto

In dieser Studie untersucht Viktor Zander die religiöse Migrantengemeinschaft slawischer Baptisten im Bundesstaat Victoria/Australien und ihren Identifikations- und Integrationsprozess innerhalb der australischen Gesellschaft. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei die Bedeutung von Religion und Ethnizität im Prozess der Identitätsbildung slawischer Einwanderer und ihrer in Australien geborenen Kinder. Die Arbeit basiert auf der Feldforschung des Autors. Den theoretischen Bezugsrahmen der Studie bildet die sozialwissenschaftliche Theorie des Religionssoziologen Hans Mol, die hier anhand neuer Forschungsdaten einer Prüfung unterzogen wird.

This work deals with the identification and integration process of immigrants in Australia and the role that religion plays in this process. Viktor Zander investigates the immigrant community of Slavic Baptists in Victoria and analyzes the relationship between ethnic and religious identities as well as their social dynamics. "Identity" and "marginality" are addressed as crucial issues for Slavic immigrants and their Australian-born children. The work is based on the author’s field-research in the Slavic Baptist community in Victoria. Key Features Second volume in relaunch of the series "Religion and Society" (RS)