New Book: Asian Migrants and Religious Experience

Dear Colleagues,

I am happy to announce the publication of our edited volume, Asian Migrants and Religious Experience. From Missionary Journeys to Labor Mobility, by Amsterdam University Press.

Bernardo Brown & Brenda Yeoh
Contributions by:
Arkotong Longkumer
Amanda Lucia
Kenneth Dean
Silvia Vignato
Bubbles Asor
Ester Gallo
Alexander Horstmann
Bernardo Brown
Brenda Yeoh
Jagath Pathirage
Weishan Huang
Janet Hoskins

Asian Migrants and Religious Experience

FROM MISSIONARY JOURNEYS TO LABOR MOBILIT

EDITED BY BERNARDO BROWN AND BRENDA S.A. YEOH

Distributed for Amsterdam University Press

312 pages | 21 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2018
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.


Bernardo E. Brown, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Department of Society, Culture and Media
International Christian University