Christianity and Community: Conversion and Adaptation among Hmong Refugee Women

Winland, Daphne

doi:10.2307/3341236

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“…Religious involvement may serve to promote bonding (within group) or bridging (across groups) forms of social capital within the host country (Allen, 2007). Migrants may find strength in a new religion chosen to replace or become integrated into their prior belief system when adapting to their new community (Winland, 1994). Religious conversion may also be used as a migration strategy, particularly when certain religious identities are favored over others (Akcapar, 2006).…”

Section: Literature Review: Religion Among Forced Migrant Womenmentioning

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Religious Coping and Challenges Among Displaced Muslim Female Refugees

Shaw

Peacock

Ali

et al. 2019

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With millions of women experiencing forced displacement, attention is needed toward migrant women’s lived experiences. Religion is an understudied but central component of coping for many migrant women. Through the use of qualitative and quantitative methods, an exploratory study was conducted with 36 forced migrant Shia Muslim women residing in a predominantly Sunni Muslim country of first asylum. Using the brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality and drawing from feminist theory, intersectionality, and the ecological framework, we describe women’s experience with religion and spirituality across a variety of domains. Open-ended semistructured interviews were analyzed using a thematic analysis approach. Participants were highly religious across all domains measured. Key themes emerged related to how religion helps women manage stress, including: (1) trusting God to solve problems and (2) relying on prayer and other religious practices to cope. Despite these strengths, women also described major challenges to religious practice, where the third identified theme emphasized that fear and persecution limit religious practice. This article builds understanding of forced migrant women’s experiences, with implications for social work practice and immigration policy. Service organizations can recognize and support religious coping, particularly among religious minority refugee women. Additionally, practitioners and policy makers can promote religious tolerance and understanding within diverse host communities.

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Section: Literature Review: Religion Among Forced Migrant Womenmentioning

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Religious Coping and Challenges Among Displaced Muslim Female Refugees

Shaw

Peacock

Ali

et al. 2019

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“…Religion plays a key role in transnational social relationships and is part of the continuity of cultures across national borders (Cadge and Ecklund, 2007; Levitt, 2003: 849; McLoughlin, 2013; Tapp, 2013: 103). Scholars have also examined how resettled refugees convert to mainstream religions such as Christianity, which leads to changes in social and gender relationships (see Ong, 2003; Smith-Hefner, 1994; Winland, 1994), and how changes in religious practices caused by migration also influence cultural behaviors and ethnic identities as well as internal social relations (Vertovec, 2001; Warner and Wittner, 1998).…”

Section: Religious Transnationalism Shamanism and Deterritorializationmentioning

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Traditionally transnational: Cultural continuity and change in Hmong shamanism across the diaspora

Lee

2019

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Based on ethnographic fieldwork with Hmong communities in central Laos and the United States (California), this paper examines how the power of Hmong shamans and their spiritual healing rituals remain effective across national borders and continue to be practiced transnationally among diasporic Hmong. Although shamanistic rituals can be seen as locally-embedded and territorially-bound, their power and efficacy can be transnationally projected across the Hmong diaspora because of cultural understandings about shamanistic births across borders and the mobile nature of souls, as well as extensive transnational kinship networks. Nonetheless, Hmong shamanism has also been transformed as it has travelled across national borders through the diaspora from a socially rich, localized community event to an individualized and commodified practice, while retaining its ‘traditional’ authority. In short, Hmong shamanism demonstrates how indigenous religious and healing practices are not incompatible with modernity but can remain remarkably resilient in a contemporary, globalized world.

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“…In discussing globalization (some scholars also used the term transnationalism or international migration), only few years ago scholars have examined the intertwine between globalisation, religion, and identity, particularly ethnicity, nationalism, and values in communities (Al Isra, 2022;Van Dijk and Botros, 2009;Winland 1994). Globalization is defined as a process of change from a more traditional condition to a new postmodernist condition or a condition where interdependence and interrelationships become more dominant (Soegojoko, 2005).…”

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The dialectic of globalization and social transformation of Silariang in Makassar, Indonesia

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Harifuddin

Azuz

et al. 2023

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Globalization contribute to the socio-cultural construction and transformation of society. This study aims to analyze the construction and social transformation of silariang among Makassar people in South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. The research uses a case study approach. Data were obtained through in-depth interviews, participant observation, and documentation studies. The results of the study show that siri’ (means dignity or shame or both at the same time) as the core value of Makassar people has a prominent relationship with silariang cases. Further, the globalization has changed the the world of view of the local community, particularly the younger generations, making them started to open minded. This change has lead them into a socio-cultural transformation. If in the past Makassar people extremely uphold the siri’ value exemplified by silariang, nowadays, people are more open to the alternative option called nikah siri or unregistered marriage. It also shows that the siri’ concept is fluid.

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Christianity and Community: Conversion and Adaptation among Hmong Refugee Women

Cited by 14 publications

References 18 publications

Religious Coping and Challenges Among Displaced Muslim Female Refugees

Religious Coping and Challenges Among Displaced Muslim Female Refugees

Traditionally transnational: Cultural continuity and change in Hmong shamanism across the diaspora

The dialectic of globalization and social transformation of Silariang in Makassar, Indonesia

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