The Evangelical Church in Boston's Chinatown - A Discourse of Language, Gender, and Identity (Hardcover, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies in Asian Americans
Release date:	June 2005
First published:	2005
Authors:	Erika A Muse
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	226
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-97406-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Other Protestant & Nonconformist Churches > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Other Protestant & Nonconformist Churches > General Books > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Other Protestant & Nonconformist Churches Promotions
LSN:	0-415-97406-2
Barcode:	9780415974066

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