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Conclusion: Communal and â#x80;#x9C;Internationalâ#x80;#x9D; Christian Identities: Intrareligious Dynamics in the DiasporaChapter 3 Insistent Ruths: Women, Marriage, and Gendered Spiritual Roles; Communal and Christian Endogamy: Marriage and Family Values across Boundaries; Women, Familial-Social Factors, and Christian Endogamy; Christian Women and Leadership: Spiritual Qualities, Values, Expectations; Conclusion: Evangelical Pentecostalism and Transformative Zeal in the Indian Diaspora; Chapter 4 Leaps of Faith: Evangelicalism and/or Pentecostalism, Supernatural Transformations, and Transnationalism

"This multimodal approach to linguistic landscapes examines the role of linguistic and semiotic regimes in constructing landscape affect. Affect, as distinct from emotion, is object-oriented, and can be analysed in terms of structures of language and signs which operate on individuals and groups in specific spatial settings. Analyzing a series of landscape types - including "kawaii," "reverenced," "romance," "friendly," "luxury" and "digital" landscapes - Lionel Wee and Robbie B.H. Goh explore how language plays a crucial role in shaping affective responses to, and interactions with, space. This linguistic and semiotic construction of different spaces also involves cultural contestations and modulations in spatial responses, and the book offers an account of the different conditions under which "affective economies" gain or lose momentum"--

The culture of Asian diasporas : integrating/interrogating (im)migration, habitus, textuality / Robbie B.H. Goh -- The uncertain configurations of a politics of location : the intersection of postcolonial, feminist, and nationalist discourses in understanding Chinese diasporic communities / Ann Brooks -- Diaspora and violence : cultural/spatial production, abjection, and exchange -- Robbie B.H. Goh -- Theorizing diasporas : three types of consciousness / Regina Lee -- Cultural citizenship in diaspora : a study of Chinese Australia / Wenche Ommundsen -- Mimics without menace : interrogating hybridity in Bharati Mukherjee's fiction / Rebecca Sultana -- The shadow of diasporic (auto)biography : the traveling-self in Michael Ondaatje's Running in the family / Carol E. Leon -- Translating Indian culture from diaspora / Alessandro Monti and Rajeshwar Mittapalli -- Claiming diaspora in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Joss & gold / Jeffrey F.L. Partridge -- Writing the Chinese and Southeast Asian diasporas in Russell Leong's Phoenix eyes / Walter S.H. Lim -- Diasporic communities and identity politics : containing the political / Ryan Bishop and John Phillips

Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text examines the ways in which culture, ethnicity, languages, traditions, governance, policies and histories interplay in the creation of the urban experiences in contemporary Southeast Asian cities. It focuses on the ways in which urban spatial forms are textual experiences, subject to interpretative strategies and the influence of other discourses. In addition it also analyzes the experiences of modernization in such cities, but also in terms of the strategies of containment, refurbishment, and loss which this has occasioned

This book provides an interesting insight into issues of migration and diversity in Asia, focusing on different scales, and incorporating everyday experiences through in depth analyses of different case studies. In drawing on a range of academic disciplines, and in utilizing numerous methodological approaches, the chapters within the book also demonstrate a breadth and depth of knowledge, thereby contributing not only to migration literature in the region, but migration literature more broadly, subsequently offering a complex negotiation of the different pathways of migration research and beyond. In focusing on migration as both historical legacy and contemporary issue, the chapters within the book bring new light to migration research, demonstrating the inherent importance of looking back in order to look forwards, and drawing together the global and the local through a process of 'glocalization' (Massey, 1991) which is seldom discussed in such detail; the contributions of this book, then, are multiple, and demonstrate a move forward in migration action research that draws together the state, the people, and everyday experience to investigate issues within migration and diversity in light of contemporary globalization and increased interconnectivity in the world today

Digital media is changing the ways in which religion is practiced, understood, proselytised and countered. Religious institutions and leaders use digital media to engage with their congregations who now are not confined to single locations and physical structures. The faithful are part of online communities which allow them a space to worship and to find fellowship. Migrant and mobile subjects thus are able to be connected to their faith - whether home grown or emerging - wherever they may be; thus providing them with an anchor in unfamiliar physical and cultural surroundings. As Asia rises, mobilities associated with Asian populations have escalated. The notion of 'Global Asia' is a reflection of this increased mobility, where Asia includes not only Asian countries as sites of political independence, but also the transnational networks of Asian trans/migrants, and the diasporic settlements of Asian peoples all over the world. This collection features cutting edge research by scholars across disciplines seeking to understand the role and significance of religion among transnational mobile subjects in this age of digital media, and in particular, as experienced in Global Asia