Asian Migrants and Religious Experience: From Missionary Journeys to Labor Mobility

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1041175914
• ISBN13: 9781041175919
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"