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Refugee and Religious Narratives: The Conversion of North Koreans from Refugees to God’s Warriors

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Building Noah’s Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities

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The significance and advantages of incorporating the life histories and personal narratives of individual refugees are consistently emphasized in anthropological contributions to refugee studies (e.g., Malkki 1996; Powles 2004; Rajaram 2002; Black 2001). The narrative perspective is vital because it can manifest the lived experiences of individual refugees over the course of, to use Michel Agier’s notion (2008), the destruction of their established life (confinement in camps or life on urban margins) and the actions taken to establish a new life.

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Jung, JH. (2015). Refugee and Religious Narratives: The Conversion of North Koreans from Refugees to God’s Warriors. In: Horstmann, A., Jung, JH. (eds) Building Noah’s Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities. Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137496300_4

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