| Description |
1 online resource (346 pages) : illustrations |
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New mobilities in Asia ; 2 |
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New mobilities in Asia ; 2.
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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 |
| Analysis |
Religious transnationalism, migrant identity, religious innovation, conversion, multiculturalism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-340) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Immigrants -- Asia
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Immigrants -- Religious life
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Religion and beliefs.
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Migration, immigration and emigration.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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RELIGION -- General.
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Immigrants -- Religious life
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Immigrants
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Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects
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| SUBJECT |
Asia -- Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects -- Congresses
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| Subject |
Asia
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brown, Bernardo E., editor
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Yeoh, Brenda S. A., editor
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| ISBN |
9789048532223 |
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9048532221 |
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