RLGA01H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Westernization, New Religious Movement, Traditional Authority
Document Summary
It is a model used to rationalize and explain flows of migration. Contextual factors: motives to emigrate, proactive vs reactive, why they left, composition of the migrant group. They often look at their religion and cultures anew and retain them instead of assimilating. Growing awareness of religious and cultural distinctiveness led to the setting up of boundaries and a specific identity. Sociology provides that keeping religion has led to coping with emotional stressors and plays a role in migrant identity and the maintenance of distinctiveness. Those coming for work, education and social motives saw religion as a defining characteristic about themselves. Delocalized religion: overtime becomes relocalized, the duty of women to practice traditional religious and cultural customs and its retention, women take care of children and they spread the teachings. ***they need communal spaces such as mosques, temple and the private home to become relocalized: mothers may go to work, grandmothers may not be there.
