Asian Migrants and Religious Experience : From Missionary Journeys to Labor Mobility /

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 ref...

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Autres auteurs: Yeoh, Brenda S. A. (Éditeur intellectuel), Brown, Bernardo E. (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Emigration and immigration > Religious aspects.
Immigrants.
Immigrants > Religious life.
RELIGION > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Immigrants > Asia.
Asia.
Asie > Émigration et immigration > Aspect religieux > Congres.
Asia > Emigration and immigration > Religious aspects > Congresses.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (252 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9789048532223

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