Korean American Evangelicals New Models for Civic Life

Name: Korean American Evangelicals New Models for Civic Life
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ISBN: 9780195372595

ISBN-10: 019537259X

ISBN-13: 9780195372595

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Authors: Elaine Howard Ecklund

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Studies of religion among our nation's newest immigrants largely focus on how religion serves the immigrant community -- for example by creating job networks and helping retain ethnic identity in the second generation. In this book Ecklund widens the inquiry to look at how Korean Americans use religion to negotiate civic responsibility, as well as to create racial and ethnic identity. She compares the views and activities of second generation Korean Americans in two different congregational settings, one ethnically Korean and the other multi-ethnic. She also conducted more than 100 in-depth interviews with Korean American members of these and seven other churches around the country, and…

Book details

List price: $40.99
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/28/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.25" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Elaine Howard Ecklund is Assistant Professor of Sociology at University at Buffalo, SUNY and a Research Affiliate of the Center on Race, Religion, and Urban Life at Rice University. She is currently completing a nation-wide study of religion and spirituality among academic scientists at elite research universities.