Título: | Getting Saved in America : Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience |
Autores: | Chen, Carolyn, |
Tipo de documento: | documento electrónico |
ISBN/ISSN/DL: | 978-1-4008-2417-5 |
Dimensiones: | 1 online resource (248 pages) / illustrations |
Langues: | Inglés |
Clasificación: | BR 563.C45 (Cristianismo -- Historia -- América -- Norteamérica -- Estados Unidos -- Chinos americanos) |
Materias: |
02 - Temático General - UNESCO 4 Ciencias sociales ; Budismo ; Comportamiento religioso ; Conflicto religioso ; Cristianismo ; Sociología |
Etiquetas: | Conversion ; Taiwanese Americans |
Resumen: |
Rights, Action, and Social Responsibility: Public debates surrounding immigration policy, climate change, international relations, and constitutional and human rights are currently at the forefront of our national discourse. Critical reasoning, supported through academic research is needed. As a result, De Gruyter, along with its partner presses, is making freely available books and journal articles across nine topical areas for all students and faculty. Broadening access to this scholarship enables more people to address these issues in an informed manner: it helps us combat false news sources, to consider the nature of truth and ethics, and to understand the struggles of all members of society
What does becoming American have to do with becoming religious? Many immigrants become more religious after coming to the United States. Taiwanese are no different. Like many Asian immigrants to the United States, Taiwanese frequently convert to Christianity after immigrating. But Americanization is more than simply a process of Christianization. Most Taiwanese American Buddhists also say they converted only after arriving in the United States even though Buddhism is a part of Taiwan's dominant religion. By examining the experiences of Christian and Buddhist Taiwanese Americans, Getting Saved in America tells "a story of how people become religious by becoming American, and how people become American by becoming religious." Carolyn Chen argues that many Taiwanese immigrants deal with the challenges of becoming American by becoming religious. Based on in-depth interviews with Taiwanese American Christians and Buddhists, and extensive ethnographic fieldwork at a Taiwanese Buddhist temple and a Taiwanese Christian church in Southern California, Getting Saved in America is the first book to compare how two religions influence the experiences of one immigrant group. By showing how religion transforms many immigrants into Americans, it sheds new light on the question of how immigrants become American |
En línea: | https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400824175 |
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