Asian Migrants and Religious Experience

from Missionary Journeys to Labor Mobility

• Author(s): Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Bernardo E. Brown,
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Pages: 346
• ISBN_10: 9048532221
  ISBN_13: 9789048532223
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / General ,

Description:... 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.