Searching fo the Sacred

Searching fo the Sacred. The Research Project on Popular Religiosity and Adaptation Among Muslim, Catholic and Orthodox Refugees in Sweden. The importance of the religious dimension in the life of immigrants and refugees is being increasingly recognized. The active role of religion in social and cultural adjustment is one dimension being explored in this book. Another theme is the relationship between religion and politics. This book, as one of the first of its kind, investigates these and other issues in a comparison between religiously oriented refugees and immigrants from the Arab world, Chile and Orthodox Christians. This book is one of a series of reports form a project concerning popular religiosity among refugees and immigrants in Sweden. Orlando Mella is a Chilean sociologist who gained his doctorate from Uppsala University. He has done extensive academic work in Sweden and is now the Rector of Universidad Academica del Humanismo Cristiano in Santiago de Chile.