What is it about?
Religion is one of the key human experience migrants take with them. In immigrant context they might not be able to engage with it as they did in their home country. Particularly in transnational and multi cultural context, it is is reproduced dogmatically and pragmatically. The essay seeks the nuances of such reproduction in relation to Sri Lankan immigrants in Darwin Australia.
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Why is it important?
It is important to understand how such unique experience of human culture - Religion - is reproduced in different cultural context, under what circumstances such reproductions occur and how immigrants use it as adaptive cultural techniques to survive in alien land.
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I hope this essay is thought provoking and theoretically stimulating. i enjoyed lot developing this essay as it sheds lights to reflexively examine on themes such as boundaries between sacred and profane are articulated and how people manipulate what outsider might see as violation of ideal. In reality, it is the way we act in our mundane lives.
DR Jagath Bandara Bandara Pathirage
Charles Darwin University
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This page is a summary of: Asian Migrants and Religious Experience, March 2018, Amsterdam University Press,
DOI: 10.5117/9789462982321.
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