{"product_id":"missions-and-conversions-t-pearson-9780230615366","title":"Missions and Conversions: Creating the Montagnard-Dega Refugee Community","description":"This study offers a fresh reading of religious conversion by analyzing a variety of \"missionaries\" that sought to influence the Montagnard-Dega refugee. Thomas Pearson uses ethnographic and archival research to tell the story of cross-cultural contact in the highlands during the Vietnam War, Christian conversion, refugee exile, and the formation of the Dega refugee community in the United States. His insightful study considers not just evangelicals and Catholics, but humanitarian workers in the highlands, refugee resettlement volunteers in the United States, and the American Special Forces soldiers. This book makes the case that the Dega have appropriated the anthropological and religious discourses of this disparate group of missionaries to recreate themselves through a multivalent \"conversion.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e T. Pearson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0230615368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780230615366\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 241\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.70d","brand":"T. Pearson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47420829335807,"sku":"9780230615366","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_271b1624-743a-4d98-85ca-285ee4f0d5fb.jpg?v=1761526408","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/missions-and-conversions-t-pearson-9780230615366","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}