Follow the New Way - American Refugee Resettlement Policy and Hmong Religious Change

When the US government resettled thousands of Hmong in 1975, the work was done by Christian organizations deputized by the state. Exploring the resiliency of tradition amid shaky US commitments to pluralism and secularism, Melissa May Borja shows how Hmong Americans developed a "new way" that blended Christianity with their longstanding practices.

About the author

Melissa May Borja, a scholar of migration, religion, race, and politics in the United States and the Pacific World, is Assistant Professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan, where she is also a core faculty member in Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies. She has advised the Vietnamese Boat People project and the Religion and Resettlement Project at Princeton, and was lead investigator of the Virulent Hate Project. An expert on Asian American religious life, she contributes regularly to the religious history blog Anxious Bench.

Summary

When the US government resettled thousands of Hmong in 1975, the work was done by Christian organizations deputized by the state. Exploring the resiliency of tradition amid shaky US commitments to pluralism and secularism, Melissa May Borja shows how Hmong Americans developed a “new way” that blended Christianity with their longstanding practices.

Product details

• Authors: Melissa May Borja
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2023
• EAN: 9780674989788
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98978-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Ethnic Studies, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, Religion & politics, Asian History, Religion and Politics, Central / national / federal government policies, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, Central government policies