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

9462982325 pdf 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.