Author: Brenda S.A. Yeoh
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9048532221
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book 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.