Religions and Migrations in the Black Sea Region
Editor(s): Eleni Sideri & Lydia Efthymia Roupakia
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Print Length: 213 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Geography, Cultural Studies, Religious Studies, Anthropology, Migration & Refugee Studies
Area: The Black Sea Region, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Iran, Romania, Turkey/Turkiye
People: Armenian, Fereydani Georgian, Greek, Romanian
Topic: Community, Cultural Heritage/Legacy, Culture & Society, Movement of People and Ideas, Diaspora, Borders, Identity, Religion, Ethnic & Ethnicity, Representation, Media & Narratives, Migrants, Migration, Mobility & Immobility, Nation-Building & Nationhood, National Consciousness, Politics & Power, Rural, Transnationalism; Modernity, Modernism, Modern
This book focuses on the interconnections of religion and migration in the Black Sea region through case studies that explore shifting identities, community, and national boundaries, as well as social practices and networks.
During the past few decades the Black Sea has been transformed from a largely closed region, due to the Cold War, to a bridge for human, economic, and cultural capital flows. As the region opened up, understandings and practices of religion were re-signified due to new and diverse mobilities and resettlements. This volume addresses and responds to the current scarcity of academic research on the repercussion of political reform, migration, and modernization in the areas surrounding the Black Sea. Contributors uncover and examine the pivotal role of religion in current cultural contestations taking place in this strategic region. Engaging with a wide range of case studies, the book offers a fresh, comparative examination of migration as it relates to different countries and religious groups in the region.
Table of Contents
Introduction — Eleni Sideri and Lydia Efthymia Roupakia
Introduction: Religion and Diasporas
1. Historical Diasporas, Religion and Identity: Exploring the Case of the Greeks of Tsalka — Eleni Sideri
2. The Armenian Community in Thessaloniki: The Dynamics of Religion — Niki Papageorgiou
Introduction: Transnational Migration and Religion
3. Return Migration in a Romano-Catholic Csángós Village in Romania — Elena Tudor
4. Religious Orientation, Migration and Identity Construction: Evidence from a Contemporary Romanian Rural Community — Alexandra Deliu
Introduction: Religious Identities and Regional Identities
5. Fereydani Georgians: Emic-Coherence, Hegemonic and Non-hegemonic Representation and Narration of Ethnic Identity — Babak Rezvani
6. Religion and Identification among the 1989 Re-settlers from Bulgaria to Turkey — Magdalena Elchinova
8. Afterword — Eleni Sideri and Lydia Efthymia Roupakia
Index
Eleni Sideri is Assistant Professior at Department of Balkan, Slavic & Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia. She holds a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK. Her research focuses on the memories and practices of diaspora among the Greek-speaking communities of the South Caucasus. Her research interests include diaspora and transnational migrations, forms of mobility and immobility, language and storytelling, film, post-socialist world, Black Sea, and Caucasus.
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Lydia Efthymia Roupakia holds a PhD and MPhil in English Studies from the University of Oxford, UK. She is Assistant Professor at Department of American Literature and Culture, School of English Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, after teaching in several other universities. Her research interests are focused on issues of multiculturalism; identity construction and Inter-American studies; cultural theory; contemporary anglophone literature and ethics. She has held the position of Head of the Department of American Literature and Culture (2021-2023). Her publications include book chapters; essays published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Atlantis, Literature Interpretation Theory, University of Toronto Quarterly, MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States and in other journals. She is also co-editor of a volume of essays on religion and migration published by Palgrave Macmillan (2017).
Source: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-39067-3 & https://www.enl.auth.gr/instructor_en.asp?Id=244
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