Asian Migrants and Religious Experience: From Missionary Journeys to Labor Mobility
ISBN: 9789048532223
Platform/Publisher: Cambridge Core / Amsterdam University Press
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The essays in this book explore migrants' motivations in support of an argument that to travel inspires a search for new meaning in religion.


Brown Bernardo :

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"Yeoh Brenda :

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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