Religion and Mobility in a Globalising Asia

Sin Wen Lau is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.Nanlai Cao is an associate professor at the School of Philosophy and Institute for Advanced Studies of Religion, Renmin University of China in Beijing. He is the author Constructing China’s Jerusalem: Christians, Power, and Place in Contemporary Wenzhou (Stanford University Press, c2011).

• Dedication Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Reconstituting Boundaries and Connectivity: Religion and Mobility in a Globalising Asia Nanlai Cao and Sin Wen Lau 2. Refuge and Emplacement through Buddhism: Karen Refugees and Religious Practices in a Northwestern Border Town of Thailand Prasert Rangkla 3. Remembering with Respect: History, Social Memory and the Cross-Border Journeys of a Charismatic Lue Monk Wasan Panyagaew 4. Pig Sacrifices, Mobility and the Ritual Recreation of Community Among the Amis of Taiwan Shu-Ling Yeh 5. Migration as a Spiritual Pathway: Narratives of Chinese Falungong Practitioners in Singapore Chee-Han Lim 6. Charisma, Mobility, and the Role of a Sufi Order in a Chinese Muslim Community Tiffany Cone 7. Mobility, Christianity and Belonging: Reflections of an Overseas Chinese Expatriate Wife in Shanghai Sin Wen Lau 8. Renegotiating Locality and Morality in a Chinese Religious Diaspora: Wenzhou Christian Merchants in Paris, France Nanlai Cao 9. Epilogue: Religion and Mobility in a Globalising Asia Nicholas Tapp