By Fenggang Yang
Christianity has develop into the main practiced faith one of the chinese language in the USA, yet little or no reliable examine exists on chinese language Christians and their church buildings. This booklet is the 1st to discover the topic from the interior, revealing how chinese language Christians build and reconstruct their identity—as Christians, americans, and Chinese—in neighborhood congregations amid the unconventional pluralism of the past due 20th century.
Today there are multiple thousand chinese language church buildings within the usa, so much of them Protestant evangelical congregations, bringing jointly diasporic chinese language from assorted origins—Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, and Southeast Asian international locations. Fenggang Yang reveals that regardless of the numerous tensions and conflicts that exist inside of those congregations, most people locate how one can creatively combine their evangelical Christian ideals with conventional chinese language (most Confucian) values. The church turns into a spot the place they could selectively assimilate into American society whereas concurrently retaining chinese language values and culture.
Yang brings to this learn specified adventure as either player and observer. Born in mainland China, he's a sociologist who switched over to Christianity after coming to the USA. the guts of this publication is an ethnographic learn of a consultant chinese language church, situated in Washington, D. C., the place he turned a member. during the booklet, Yang attracts upon interviews with contributors of this congregation whereas making comparisons with different church buildings during the usa. Chinese Christians in the USA is a massive addition to the literature at the event of "new" immigrant communities.
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