Progressive entanglements: religious intimacy in Japanese-Filipino marriages

• Published in: Philippine studies Vol. 60; no. 2; p. 261
• Main Author: Lopez, Mario Ivan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Ethnography; Faith; Filipinos; Geographic mobility; Intimacy; Japanese; Marriage; Migrants; Philippines; Transnationalism

Studies on international marriages often focus on how gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity are constructed and articulated through the migration process. The influence of religion as one articulator in migrants' lives and its influence on the family tend to be ignored, but arguably individual...