| The Evangelical Church in Boston's Chinatown: A Discourse of Language, Gender, and Identity Contributor(s): Muse, Erika A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415974062 ISBN-13: 9780415974066 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2005 Annotation: The purpose of this book is to provide valuable anthropological data on the identity construction of a rapidly growing Chinese Christian population in the United States. As more and more Chinese of different generations and varying cultural backgrounds practice evangelical Christianity, the meaning of Chinese American will change accordingly. The book provides significant linguistic data for a nascent but important area of anthropological research. The scope of the book encompasses Asian American homiletics, discourse analysis and prosody, types of sermons and roles of men and women in a diverse, multilingual church. Parallels between Confucianism and Christianity and the role of "gradual evangelism" in identity construction are discussed. These elements are contextualized within current sociocultural and economic spheres and address the implications of the "model minority" and Asian patriarchy. The book provides original linguistic data of sermons in Mandarin, Cantonese and English. The book posits that the Chinese of the Boston church have developed an ethno-Christian identity and this identity demonstrated through ethnically marked prosodic cues, unites the congregation in the ethnic church. This position challenges some current approaches to identity construction and the role of religion in immigrant communities. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Denominations - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies |
| Dewey: 289.950 |
| LCCN: 2004030687 |
| Series: Studies in Asian Americans: Reconceptualizing Culture, History, and Politics |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6.32" W x 9.38" (0.99 lbs) 226 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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| Publisher Description: First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |