Korean American Evangelicals New Models for Civic Life

Name: Korean American Evangelicals New Models for Civic Life
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ISBN: 9780195305494

ISBN-10: 0195305493

ISBN-13: 9780195305494

Edition: 2006

Authors: Elaine Howard Ecklund

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Scholarly and popular commentators lament the deterioration of civil society as a result of American individualism, a decline in some part based on eroding religious participation. In this context, it is important to ask how second-generation immigrants use religious resources to understand, participate in, and potentially change American religion. Scholars stress that religion was vital for the civic integration of earlier European immigrants. However, studies of religion among ournation'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…

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/9/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 222
Size: 9.41" wide x 6.18" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.100
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.




Religion and civic life for Korean Americans



Theoretical interlude : a cultural approach to connecting institutions and identities



Religion, race, and ethnicity in two churches



Models of civic responsibility



Civic identities



Civic models and community service



Evangelicalism and politics for Korean Americans



Implications for institutional change