ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the different waves of Vietnamese migrants in the Germany to understand the diversity of Vietnamese religious networks in the diaspora. It explores how religious place-making in Europe emerges from the ways in which migrants transport and introduce religious ideas, practices, and sacred objects from one place to another, while simultaneously changing or redefining their ideas about belief, ritual, locality and sacred space in the process. The chapter concentrates on the relationship between religious activities and their emplacement within the field of immigrant entrepreneurship in Berlin by focusing on altars in shops, snack bars, restaurants and marketplaces. It focuses on spirits and their role in protecting the territory of shops and the wellbeing of the owners. The chapter also focuses on the places where most of economic and religious activities take place: in Vietnamese wholesale markets located within remote industrial urban areas.
