This book sheds light on North Korean migrants' Christian encounters and conversions throughout the process of migration and settlement. Focusing on churches as primary contact zones, it highlights the ways in which the migrants and their evangelical counterparts both draw on and contest each others' envisioning of a reunified Christianized Korea.

Autorentext

Jin-Heon Jung received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States, and is currently a Research Fellow and the Seoul Project coordinator at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany. His publications include Building Noah's Ark for Refugees, Migrants, and Religious Communities (co-edited, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Multiculturalism in Korea: A Critical Review (co-authored, 2007, in Korean), and My Friends from North Korea (co-authored, 2002, in Korean).

Inhalt

1. Introduction: North Korean Migrants and Contact Zones 2. The Politics of South Korean Evangelical Nationalism 3. Perilous Crossing: North Koreans' Christian Encounters in the Sino-North Korean Border Area 4. Heroes to Regular Citizens: The Politics of North Korean Migrants Subjectivities 5. Ideal Body, True Christians: The Freedom School 6. Narrativization of Christian Passage: From Refugees to God's Warriors 7. Conclusion: Free to Be