Asian Migrants and Religious Experience (eBook, PDF)

From Missionary Journeys to Labor Mobility
Redaktion: Brown, Bernardo; Yeoh, Brenda

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040799574
• Artikelnr.: 75564927

Autorenporträt

Bernardo Brown is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan. He obtained his Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Cornell University and has recently edited with Michael Feener, Configuring Catholicism in the Anthropology of Christianity. Brenda S. Yeoh is Provost's Chair Professor in the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore. Most recently she has co-authored Contested memoryscapes: The Politics of Second World War Commemoration in Singapore (Ashgate, 2016), Transnational Labour Migration, Remittances and the Changing Family in Asia (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) and Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia (Duke University Press, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Human Mobility as Engine of Religious Change Bernardo E.
Brown & Brenda S.A. Yeoh SECTION 1: Mobile Religious Practices 2. Saving
Yogis: Spiritual Nationalism and the Proselytizing Missions of Global Yoga
Amanda Lucia 3. Renewed flows of ritual knowledge and ritual affect within
transnational networks: a case study of three ritual-events of the Xinghua
(Henghua) communities in Singapore Kenneth Dean 4. Liberalizing the
Boundaries: Reconfiguration of Religious Beliefs and Practice amongst Sri
Lankan Immigrants in Australia Jagath Bandara Pathirage SECTION 2:
Transnational Proselytizing 5. From structural separation to religious
incorporation. A case study of a transnational Buddhist group in Shanghai,
China Weishan Huang 6. 10/40 window: Naga missionaries as spiritual
migrants and the Asian experience Arkotong Longkumer 7. Religion,
Masculinity and Transnational Mobility. Migrant Catholic Men and the
Politics of Evangelization Ester Gallo 8. Helping the Wounded as Religious
Experience: The Free Burma Rangers in Karen State, Myanmar Alexander
Horstmann SECTION 3: Refashioning Religiosity in the Diaspora 9. A
Multicultural Church: Notes on Sri Lankan Transnational Workers and the
Migrant Chaplaincy in Italy Bernardo E. Brown 10. Bahala na ang Diyosi:
the Paradox of Empowerment among Filipino Catholic Migrants in South Korea
Bubbles Beverly Neo Asor 11. Feeling Hindu: the devotional Sivaist
aesthetic matrix and the creation of a diasporic Hinduism in North Sumatra
Silvia Vignato AFTERWORD 12. What Makes Asian Migrants' Religious
Experience Asian? Janet Alison Hoskins