Flight and Religion
Description
This book is based on an interdisciplinary, qualitative-empirical study of Muslim, Christian, and Yazidi families. It explores the significance of religion in coping with traumatic experiences during flight and migration processes. Using the concept of VulnerAbility , the book illustrates how children and their parents generate agency through their faith and their sense of belonging to a religious community. Through individual efforts at adaptation, they meaningfully adjust their religious heritage - reflected in their images of God and religious relevance systems - to new life contexts. This enables them to develop positive visions of the future by drawing on their faith, even though religious affiliation has often been a source of social conflict, reinforced by discriminatory practices in their countries of origin, along migration routes, and within the German asylum system.
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.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Methodological approach and procedure.- 3 Religious identity formation processes among children and young people with flight experiences between belonging, exclusion, and racism.- 4 "God makes me brave." Children and young people's religious interpretations of themselves and the world in the context of flight experiences.- 5 Parenthood under conditions of flight and asylum.- 6 Religious education as a bridge between old and new lifeworlds and a subjectivizing factor for women, etc.
