Asian migrants and religious experience : from missionary journeys to labor mobility
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Brown Bernardo E. ; Yeoh Brenda S.A. (1963-....) ;
- Editeurs : Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press ;
- Date d'édition : Copyright 2018
- ISBN : 978-94-6298-232-1, 94-6298-232-5
- Sujets : Émigration et immigration -- Aspect religieux -- Asie, Anthropologie religieuse, Asia -- Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects -- Congresses
- Comprend : Human mobility as engine of religious change, Saving yogis, Renewed flows of ritual knowledge and ritual affect within transnational networks, Liberalizing the boundaries, From structural separation to religious incorporation, 10/14 window, Religion, masculinity, and transnational mobility, Helping the wounded as religious experience, A multicultural church, Bahala na ang diyos, Feeling, What makes Asian migrants' religious experience Asian?
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (346 p.), : Ill., couv. ill. en coul., 25 cm
- Pays de publication : Pays-Bas
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : New mobilities in Asia, 2,
Notes
La ressource est également disponible en version électronique ; Bibliogr. en fin de contributions. Bibliogr. p. [315]-340. Index
Résumé
La 4e de couv. indique : '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'