Traffics of the Sacred and the Secular: Christianity and Citizenship in Asia

What is it about?

This special issue explores how a traffic of ideas and practices between the religious and the secular shape understandings of citizenship in Asia. Grounded in extensive ethnographic research, the essays collected within examine how Christian minority groups in India, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Taiwan negotiate understandings of what it means to be part of a national collective. They show how religious adherents actively craft a religious form of belonging to the nation through the practice of Christian values and materiality, participation in social issues and political events, and striving to preserve ethnic identity. _x000D_ _x000D_

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