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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Bernardo E., editor.

Yeoh, Brenda S. A., editor.

National University of Singapore. Asia Research Institute, host institution.

Series:

New mobilities in Asia ; 2.

New mobilities in Asia ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asia--Emigration and immigration--Religious aspects--Congresses.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 page) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020).

"All of the chapters in the book evolved from the conference 'Migrant Communities and Religious Experience in Asia,' held at the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore in August 2015."--Page 9.

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

ISBN:

1-003-69124-2

1-04-077199-8

90-485-3222-1

9781003691242

OCLC:

1051222493