Asian Migrants and Religious Experience
Subtitle: From Missionary Journeys to Labor Mobility
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9789462982321
Subjects: Asia, emigration and immigration
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.