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The Diversity of Asian Immigrants' Participation in Religious Institutions in the United States |
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Min, Pyong Gap (著)
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Jang, Sou Hyun (著)
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| Source |
Sociology of Religion
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| Volume | v.76 n.3 Autumn |
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| Date | 2015 |
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| Pages | 253 - 274 |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
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http://www.oxfordjournals.org
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| Location | Oxford, UK [牛津, 英國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | 1. Pyong Gap Min, Queen College and the Graduate Center of City University of New York
2. Sou Hyun Jang, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York |
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| Keyword | Asian religions; Asian-Americans; immigration; congregations; religious change; survey research |
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| Abstract | Social scientific studies of new immigrants' religious practices over the last 30 years have been based largely on ethnographic research on immigrant religious institutions. Two major themes emerging from these studies are that (1) non-Christian religious institutions have been transformed in the U.S. context, following the Protestant congregational model, and (2) immigrant religious institutions mainly serve ethnicity and social-service functions for their members. Since Asian immigrants mainly represent non-Christian religious groups, a major survey study of their religious participation sheds new light on these two themes. This study fills a gap in research on Asian immigrants' institutional religious practices by providing comprehensive statistics using survey data. As expected, our analysis produces important findings that supplement previous and mostly ethnographic studies related to the two major themes. Our major findings also indicate that Asian Protestant and Catholic immigrant groups significantly differ from their American counterparts in institutional religious practices. |
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| Table of contents | THE RESEARCH ISSUE AND THE MAIN OBJECTIVES 253
LITERATURE REVIEW AND TWO MAJOR THEMES 255
Non-Christian Institutions' Transformations Following the Protestant Congregational Model 255
The Ethnicity and Social-Service Functions of Religious Institutions 256
DATA SOURCES 258
Religious Distribution in Asian Countries and New Asian Immigrants' Current Religions 259
AFFILIATION WITH A RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION AND PARTICIPATION IN ETHNIC CHURCH 263
FREQUENCY OF PARTICIPATION 268
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION 270
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 272
REFERENCES 272 |
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| ISSN | 10694404 (P); 17598818 (E) |
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| Created date | 2023.11.07 |
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| Modified date | 2023.11.07 |
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