Getting Saved in America (eBook)

Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience

Carolyn Chen (Autor)

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2009
256 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2417-5 (ISBN)

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Carolyn Chen is associate professor of sociology and Asian American studies at Northwestern University.

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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 "e;a story of how people become religious by becoming American, and how people become American by becoming religious."e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.4.2009
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: 99 Ranch Market • Accounting • Altar call • Alternative model • American Majority • American middle class • americans • Ann Swidler • aristocracy • Baptists • Bhikkhu • Bible • Bodhisattva • Buddha-nature • Buddhism • buddhism and christianity • Buddhism in Taiwan • Buddhism in the United States • buddhist temple • cambodian americans • Career • Catholic Church in Mexico • cell group • Chinese Buddhism • Chinese Culture • Christ • Christian • Christian and Missionary Alliance • christian fundamentalism • Christianity • Christianity in China • christianity in the united states • Christian Literature • Christian Mission • christian mythology • Christian revival • Christian tradition • Church Growth • Church Service • Citizenship of the United States • Clergy • Colonialism • community development • Confucianism • conversion narrative • conversion to Christianity • cultural practice • deacon • deity • democracy in America • D. H. Lawrence • Disciple (Christianity) • Education in Taiwan • ERA • Ethnic religion • Ethnoburb • European diaspora • evangelicalism in the United States • Evangelism • Extended family • Family reunification • Focus On the Family • folk religion • God • Gratitude • Guanyin • Hall church • Hinduism in the United States • His Family • Household • Housewife • Hsi Lai Temple • Human Capital • humanistic Buddhism • Icon • Immigration • Immigration Policy • Immigration to the United States • impermanence • Incarnation (Christianity) • Incense • income • Industry • insurance • interdependence • Interior life (Catholic theology) • israelites • Jews • Judeo-Christian • Korean Americans • Kshitigarbha • Kurien • Laity • Livelihood • Loyalty • lunar new year • mainline Protestant • Marketing • Marriageable age • Missionary • Monasticism • Morality • Mr. • Mrs. • Nuclear family • Obligation • official language • Omnipotence • On Practice • Origin of language • Pastor • Patriotism • Permanent residency • Personal god • piety • positive liberty • Prayer • Presbyterianism • preservationist • printing • Progenitor • Protestantism • Puritans • Qualified person (European Union) • Racism • Real estate license • Religion • Religion in Taiwan • religion in the united states • Religiosity • Religious Community • Religious Conversion • Religious education • religious experience • Religious Identity • Religious Organization • Religious pluralism • Religious symbol • religious text • remittance • Renunciation • Residential Area • revival meeting • Romans 16 • Rotary International • Sake • Salvation • Schools of Buddhism • Self-Governance • Self-Transcendence • Sentient beings (Buddhism) • Sermon • shahada • social equality • Society of the United States • Sociology • Southern California • spirit guide • Spirituality • spouse • Sunday school • Taiwanese Americans • Taiwanese people • Taoism • Tax Collector • The Buddhist (TV channel) • The Other Hand • Time in the United States • Tzu Chi • University of Hawaii Press • University of North Carolina • valedictorian • Veneration of the dead • Wealth • Western Culture • Western religions • Western World • white americans • Will of God • Worship
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2417-6 / 1400824176
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2417-5 / 9781400824175