Mario Lopez

How do faith, family, and migration intersect in the intimate lives of transnational couples? This ethnography examines Japanese-Filipino marriages in contemporary Japan to reveal how gendered Catholic practices, cultural negotiation, and the politics of belonging shape everyday life. Set in Northern Kyushu, this ethnography explores the often tense dynamics of these relationships—how love, faith, and social expectations are navigated across multiple domains. Through long-term fieldwork, it shows how Filipino migrants and their Japanese partners create "contact zones" where faith becomes both a resource for connection and a site of struggle. Religion, far from being a private matter, becomes a powerful tool for migrants to sustain family ties, negotiate identities, and transform the intimate spaces they live in. Centering religious practices within migration studies, this book offers fresh insights into the evolving landscape of transnational families in Japan.

Con una estrella que se elev de los inolvidables papeles que interpret de ni o como A.C. Slater en Saved by the Bell a la vanguardia de los medios de entretenimiento de hoy en d a, Mario Lopez es nada menos que una sensaci n de la cultura pop. Ahora que est a punto de cumplir cuarenta a os, Mario mira su vida con una perspectiva renovada, humor y sensibilidad de c mo las cosas han cambiado con la edad. Por primera vez divulga las experiencias entra ables, sorprendentes y algunas veces dif ciles que lo convirtieron en el padre y esposo amoroso que es hoy. En Entre nosotros, Mario narra, con absoluta honestidad, sus xitos y sus decepciones en el mundo del entretenimiento y c mo el amor de su familia y sus fuertes valores personales lo ayudaron a mantenerse centrado sin importar lo que pudiera traerle la vida. Con ingenio y candor, Mario revela sus historias m s ntimas, las que jam s ha contado, incluyendo detalles acerca de su tumultuosa y muy p blica vida amorosa, ofreciendo a sus lectores un vistazo a los altibajos de su pasado rom ntico que lo condujo hasta la vida feliz que lleva con su bella esposa y sus dos hijos. Por primera vez y sin filtros, Mario Lopez.

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