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Asian migrants and religious experience : from missionary journeys to labor mobility / edited by Bernardo E. Brown and Brenda S.A. Yeoh.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New mobilities in Asia ; 2.Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (346 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789048532223
  • 9048532221
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Asian migrants and religious experience.DDC classification:
  • 301 22
LOC classification:
  • JV8490 .A85 2018eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Human mobility as engine of religious change / Bernardo E. Brown, Brenda S.A. Yeah -- Saving yogis : spiritual nationalism and the proselytizing missions of global yoga / Amanda Lucia -- 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 -- Liberalizing the boundaries : reconfiguration of religious beliefs and practice amongst Sri Lankan immigrants in Australia / Jagath Bandara Pathirage -- From structural separation to religious incorporation : a case study of a transnational Buddhist group in Shanghai, China / Weishan Huang -- "10/40 Window" : Naga missionaries as spiritual migrants and the Asian experience / Arkotong Longkumer -- Religion, masculinity, and transnational mobility migrant catholic men and the politics of evangelization / Ester Gallo -- Helping the wounded as religious experience the free Burma rangers in Karen State, Myanmar / Alexander Horstmann -- A multicultural church : notes on Sri Lankan transnational workers and the migrant chaplaincy in Italy / Bernardo E. Brown -- "Bahala Na Ang Diyos" : the paradox of empowerment among Filipino Catholic migrants in South Korea / Bubbles Beverly Neo Asor -- Feeling Hindu : the devotional Sivaist esthetic matrix and the creation of a diasporic Hinduism in North Sumatra / Silvia Vignato -- What makes Aian migrants' religious experience Asian? Janet Alison Hoskins.
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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-340) and index.

Human mobility as engine of religious change / Bernardo E. Brown, Brenda S.A. Yeah -- Saving yogis : spiritual nationalism and the proselytizing missions of global yoga / Amanda Lucia -- 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 -- Liberalizing the boundaries : reconfiguration of religious beliefs and practice amongst Sri Lankan immigrants in Australia / Jagath Bandara Pathirage -- From structural separation to religious incorporation : a case study of a transnational Buddhist group in Shanghai, China / Weishan Huang -- "10/40 Window" : Naga missionaries as spiritual migrants and the Asian experience / Arkotong Longkumer -- Religion, masculinity, and transnational mobility migrant catholic men and the politics of evangelization / Ester Gallo -- Helping the wounded as religious experience the free Burma rangers in Karen State, Myanmar / Alexander Horstmann -- A multicultural church : notes on Sri Lankan transnational workers and the migrant chaplaincy in Italy / Bernardo E. Brown -- "Bahala Na Ang Diyos" : the paradox of empowerment among Filipino Catholic migrants in South Korea / Bubbles Beverly Neo Asor -- Feeling Hindu : the devotional Sivaist esthetic matrix and the creation of a diasporic Hinduism in North Sumatra / Silvia Vignato -- What makes Aian migrants' religious experience Asian? Janet Alison Hoskins.

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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