Asian migrants and religious experience: from missionary journeys to labour 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 refashio...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam University Press
2018
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| In: |
New mobilities in Asia (2)
Year: 2018 |
| Series/Journal: | New mobilities in Asia
2 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Foreign country
/ Asians
/ Religion
B Immigrants / Cultural identity / Religion |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Asia B Asia Emigration and immigration Religious aspects Congresses |
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Table of Contents |
| 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 |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 315-340 Index: Seite 341-346 |
| ISBN: | 9462982325 |