Asian Migrants and Religious Experience: From Missionary Journeys to Labor Mobility

Typically, scholars approach migrants’ religions as a safeguard of cultural identity, something that connects migrants to their communities of origin. This ethnographic anthology challenges that position by reframing the religious experiences of migrants as a transformative force capable of refashio...

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Weitere Verfasser: Brown, Bernardo (HerausgeberIn), Yeoh, Brenda S.A (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press [2018]
Schriftenreihe:New Mobilities in Asia 2
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Zusammenfassung:Typically, scholars approach migrants’ religions as a safeguard of cultural identity, something that connects migrants to their communities of origin. This ethnographic anthology challenges that position by reframing the religious experiences of migrants as a transformative force capable of refashioning narratives of displacement into journeys of spiritual awakening and missionary calling. These essays explore migrants’ motivations in support of an argument that to travel inspires a search for new meaning in religion
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Beschreibung:1 online resource 21 halftones
ISBN:9789048532223
DOI:10.1515/9789048532223

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