Asian migrants and religious experience : from missionary journeys to labor mobility

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Asian migrants and religious experience : from missionary journeys to labor mobility

Title remainder

from missionary journeys to labor mobility

Statement of responsibility

edited by Bernardo E. Brown and Brenda S.A. Yeoh

Contributor

• Brown, Bernardo E.
• Yeoh, Brenda S. A.
• National University of Singapore, Asia Research Institute

Editor

• Yeoh, Brenda S. A.
• Brown, Bernardo E.

Host institution

• National University of Singapore, Asia Research Institute

Subject

• Asia -- Emigration and immigration | Religious aspects -- Congresses

Genre

• Congresses

Language

eng

Summary

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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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• New mobilities in Asia
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Series volume

2