Asian Migrants and Religious Experience : : From Missionary Journeys to Labor Mobility / / ed. by Bernardo Brown, Brenda Yeoh.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
• MitwirkendeR: Asor, Bubbles Beverly Neo,; Brown, Bernardo E.,; Dean, Kenneth,; Gallo, Ester,; Horstmann, Alexander,; Hoskins, Janet Alison,; Huang, Weishan,; Longkumer, Arkotong,; Lucia, Amanda,; Pathirage, Jagath Bandara,; Vignato, Silvia,; Yeoh, Brenda S.A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Brown, Bernardo,; Yeoh, Brenda,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: New Mobilities in Asia ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 21 halftones

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction
• Section 1 Mobile Religious Practices
• 2. Saving Yogis
• 3. Renewed Flows of Ritual Knowledge and Ritual Affect within Transnational Networks
• 4. Liberalizing the Boundaries
• Section 2 Transnational Proselytizing
• 5. From Structural Separation to Religious Incorporation
• 6. “10/40 Window”
• 7. Religion, Masculinity, and Transnational Mobility
• 8. Helping the Wounded as Religious Experience
• Section 3 Refashioning Religiosity in the Diaspora
• 9. A Multicultural Church
• 10. “Bahala Na Ang Diyos”
• 11. Feeling Hindu
• 12. Afterword What Makes Asian Migrants’ Religious Experience Asian?
• References
• Index