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.
The essays in this book explore migrants’ motivations in support of an argument that to travel inspires a search for new meaning in religion.
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. 10/40 window: 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. Bahala na ang Diyosi: 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
Bernardo Brown is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan. He obtained his Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Cornell University and has recently edited with Michael Feener, Configuring Catholicism in the Anthropology of Christianity.
Brenda S. Yeoh is Provost's Chair Professor in the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore. Most recently she has co-authored Contested memoryscapes: The Politics of Second World War Commemoration in Singapore (Ashgate, 2016), Transnational Labour Migration, Remittances and the Changing Family in Asia (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) and Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia (Duke University Press, 2013).
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