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Identity and Marginality Among New Australians

Religion and Ethnicity in Victoria's Slavic Baptist Community [Hardback]

by Viktor Zander

Author
Viktor Zander
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
De Gruyter
Published
October 2004

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This work deals with the identification and integration process of immigrants in Australia and the role that religion plays in this process. Viktor Zander investigates the immigrant community of Slavic Baptists in Victoria and analyzes the relationship between ethnic and religious identities as well as their social dynamics. "Identity" and "marginality" are addressed as crucial issues for Slavic immigrants and their Australian born children. The work is based on the author's field-research in the Slavic Baptist community in Victoria and is a revised PhD thesis from Deakin University, Australia. The social scientific theory of Professor Hans Mol, a sociologist of religion, serves as a theoretical framework for the study and is examined in the light of new field-data. In dieser Studie untersucht Viktor Zander die religiose Migrantengemeinschaft der Slavic Baptists im Bundesstaat Victoria/Australien und ihren Identifikationsund Integrationsprozess innerhalb der australischen Gesellschaft. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei die Bedeutung von Religion und Ethnizitat im Prozess der Identitats-bildung slawischer Einwanderer und ihrer in Australien geborenen Kinder. Die Arbeit basiert auf einer Fe