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This introduction illustrates the thematics of migration of peoples, faiths and the technologies and materials of religion. By comparing and contrasting old and new religions in a number of different Asian and Pacific settings, we highlight the tensions of globalisation and modernity – the challenges of minority faiths and religious institutions in dominant settings, the work involved in proselytisation, the imaginary and literal links among members of faith communities within and across borders, and the politics of religious adherence.
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The term ‘religion’ has a distinctly Christian genealogy (Asad 1993), and we are wary of offering a new definition of our own. Moreover, the names of individual faiths—Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism—gloss over an enormous and perhaps even incommensurable range of differences. Nonetheless, we use these terms throughout this volume, trusting that the ethnographic details in the chapters that follow demonstrate that we do not take religion, Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism, or any other generalized term to designate anything homogeneous.
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Manderson, L., Smith, W., Tomlinson, M. (2012). Beliefs Beyond Borders and Communities of Faith. In: Manderson, L., Smith, W., Tomlinson, M. (eds) Flows of Faith. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2932-2_1
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