Mobile bodies, mobile souls : family, religion and migration in a global world / edited by Mikkel Rytter and Karen Fog Olwig.

Proceedings of two conferences, one held Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2008 at the Danish Institute in Damascus, Syra, the other held Apr. 27-28 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : family, religion and migration in a global world / Mikkel Rytter and Karen Fog Olwig -- The re-establishment of meaning and purpose : Mādri and Padre Muzhuh in the Punjabi diaspora / Roger Ballard -- Demonic migrations : the re-enchantment of middle-class life / Mikkel Rytter -- The moral landscape of Caribbean migration / Karen Fog Olwig -- With Mame Diarro Bousso in Spain : Senegalese migrant women in Tenerife / Eva Evers Rosander -- 'You want your children to become like you' : the transmission of religious practices among Iraqi families in Copenhagen / Marianne Holm Pedersen -- Learning to pray : religious socialization across generations and borders / Peggy Levitt, Melissa D. Barnett and Nancy A. Khalil -- The sound of silence : the reproduction and transformation of global conflicts within Palestinian families in Denmark / Anja Kublitz -- Band of brothers : spiritual kinship and religious organization in Peruvian migration / Karsten Paerregaard -- Field of tensions : Sufism, the republic and evil eyes in an Istanbul women's circle / Lea Svane -- A method whose times is due : mysticism, economics, and spritual kinship in a global Sufi movement / Nils Bubandt.

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