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

A very important book. Aleksandra Ðuric Milovanovic charts the Nazarenes, the most dynamic and ethnically diverse religious movement to emerge in nineteenth century Central Europe and the subsequent emigration of almost entire community to North America in twentieth century. The Nazarene beliefs exposed them to persecution, but their religion also turned into a ‘channel for migration.’ Milovanovic demonstrates formidably the role of religious and communal identity throughout migration process as well as how European religious migrants integrated in the American society and how they changed along the way.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Religious Minorities on the MoveChapter I: The Swiss Neutäufer or Evangelical Baptists: The Emergence and Development of a New Religious CommunityChapter II: Nazarene Beginnings: Changing Religious Landscape at the Turn of the Twentieth CenturyChapter III: First Wave Refugees: Narratives on Migration and Community ChangeChapter IV: Nazarenes: The Pacifist Christians in Communist YugoslaviaChapter V: Apostolic Christian Church (Nazarene): Understanding Community Transformation in a New SettingChapter VI: Transnational Religious Networks of the Apostolic Christian Church (Nazarene)ConclusionReferencesIndexAbout the Author

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

A very important book. Aleksandra Ðuric Milovanovic charts the Nazarenes, the most dynamic and ethnically diverse religious movement to emerge in nineteenth century Central Europe and the subsequent emigration of almost entire community to North America in twentieth century. The Nazarene beliefs exposed them to persecution, but their religion also turned into a ‘channel for migration.’ Milovanovic demonstrates formidably the role of religious and communal identity throughout migration process as well as how European religious migrants integrated in the American society and how they changed along the way.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Religious Minorities on the MoveChapter I: The Swiss Neutäufer or Evangelical Baptists: The Emergence and Development of a New Religious CommunityChapter II: Nazarene Beginnings: Changing Religious Landscape at the Turn of the Twentieth CenturyChapter III: First Wave Refugees: Narratives on Migration and Community ChangeChapter IV: Nazarenes: The Pacifist Christians in Communist YugoslaviaChapter V: Apostolic Christian Church (Nazarene): Understanding Community Transformation in a New SettingChapter VI: Transnational Religious Networks of the Apostolic Christian Church (Nazarene)ConclusionReferencesIndexAbout the Author

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

A very important book. Aleksandra Ðuric Milovanovic charts the Nazarenes, the most dynamic and ethnically diverse religious movement to emerge in nineteenth century Central Europe and the subsequent emigration of almost entire community to North America in twentieth century. The Nazarene beliefs exposed them to persecution, but their religion also turned into a ‘channel for migration.’ Milovanovic demonstrates formidably the role of religious and communal identity throughout migration process as well as how European religious migrants integrated in the American society and how they changed along the way.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Religious Minorities on the MoveChapter I: The Swiss Neutäufer or Evangelical Baptists: The Emergence and Development of a New Religious CommunityChapter II: Nazarene Beginnings: Changing Religious Landscape at the Turn of the Twentieth CenturyChapter III: First Wave Refugees: Narratives on Migration and Community ChangeChapter IV: Nazarenes: The Pacifist Christians in Communist YugoslaviaChapter V: Apostolic Christian Church (Nazarene): Understanding Community Transformation in a New SettingChapter VI: Transnational Religious Networks of the Apostolic Christian Church (Nazarene)ConclusionReferencesIndexAbout the Author