Asian Migrants and Religious Experience : From Missionary Journeys to Labor Mobility (New Mobilities in Asia)

Brown, Bernardo (EDT)/ Yeoh, Brenda (EDT)

Routledge（2025/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 346 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781041175919
• DDC分類 301

Full 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.

Contents

1. Introduction: Human Mobility as Engine of Religious Change Bernardo E. Brown & Brenda S.A. Yeoh SECTION 1: Mobile Religious Practices 2. Saving Yogis: Spiritual Nationalism and the Proselytizing Missions of Global Yoga Amanda Lucia 3. Renewed flows of ritual knowledge and ritual affect within transnational networks: a case study of three ritual-events of the Xinghua (Henghua) communities in Singapore Kenneth Dean 4. Liberalizing the Boundaries: Reconfiguration of Religious Beliefs and Practice amongst Sri Lankan Immigrants in Australia Jagath Bandara Pathirage SECTION 2: Transnational Proselytizing 5. From structural separation to religious incorporation. A case study of a transnational Buddhist group in Shanghai, China Weishan Huang 6. Ÿ10/40 windowŒ: Naga missionaries as spiritual migrants and the Asian experience Arkotong Longkumer 7. Religion, Masculinity and Transnational Mobility. Migrant Catholic Men and the Politics of Evangelization Ester Gallo 8. Helping the Wounded as Religious Experience: The Free Burma Rangers in Karen State, Myanmar Alexander Horstmann SECTION 3: Refashioning Religiosity in the Diaspora 9. A Multicultural Church: Notes on Sri Lankan Transnational Workers and the Migrant Chaplaincy in Italy Bernardo E. Brown 10. ŸBahala na ang DiyosŒi: the Paradox of Empowerment among Filipino Catholic Migrants in South Korea Bubbles Beverly Neo Asor 11. Feeling Hindu: the devotional Sivaist aesthetic matrix and the creation of a diasporic Hinduism in North Sumatra Silvia Vignato AFTERWORD 12. What Makes Asian Migrants' Religious Experience Asian? Janet Alison Hoskins