Books
Asian Migrants and Religious Experience: From Missionary Journeys to Labor Mobility
Author | : | BROWN Bernardo & YEOH Brenda S.A. (eds) |
Publication Date | : | Mar / 2018 |
Publisher | : | Amsterdam University Press, The Netherlands |
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.
From ARI organized conference “Migrant Communities and Religious Experience in Asia”, 20-21 August 2015.