Untold Journey of the Nazarene Emigration From Yugoslavia to North - Americ

Covering the specific emigration history of the Nazarenes (Evangelical Baptists), an understudied religious minority in Southeastern Europe, this book provides completely new insights of the migration history from Southeastern Europe to the North America, tracing migration routes based on dynamic religious networks and transatlantic alliances.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Religious Minorities on the Move
Chapter I: The Swiss Neutäufer or Evangelical Baptists: The Emergence and Development of a New Religious Community
Chapter II: Nazarene Beginnings: Changing Religious Landscape at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Chapter III: First Wave Refugees: Narratives on Migration and Community Change
Chapter IV: Nazarenes: The Pacifist Christians in Communist Yugoslavia
Chapter V: Apostolic Christian Church of Nazarene: Understanding Community Transformation in a New Setting
Chapter VI: Transnational Religious Networks of the Apostolic Christian Church of Nazarene
Conclusion
References
Index
About the Author

About the author

Aleksandra Djuri¿ Milovanovi¿ is an anthropologist and senior research associate at the Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Belgrade, Serbia).

Product details

• Authors: Aleksandra Djuric Milovanovic
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.2024
• EAN: 9781666922769
• ISBN: 978-1-66692-276-9
• No. of pages: 158
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, North America, RELIGION / Christianity / History, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, RELIGION / Christianity / Baptist, History of Religion, Migration, immigration & emigration, Yugoslavia, Migration, immigration and emigration, North America (USA and Canada), Yugoslavia & Former Yugoslavia, Baptist Churches