Asian Migrants and Religious Experience: From Missionary Journeys to Labor Mobility
Bernardo Brown, "Asian Migrants and Religious Experience: From Missionary Journeys to Labor Mobility "
English | ISBN: 9462982325 | 2018 | 346 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 9462982325 | 2018 | 346 pages | PDF | 2 MB
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.