Bargaining with God in the Name of Family: Chinese Christian Entrepreneurs in Italian Coffee Bars
This ethnographic study investigates how Christian Chinese coffee bar owners in Italy deal with conflicts between religious ethics and economic practices, while seeking legitimate moral guidance for the mundane dilemmas they confront in their everyday lives. It situates their religious practices wit...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Brill
[2020]
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| In: |
Annual review of the sociology of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 11, Pages: 1-19 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Italy
/ Chinese people
/ Coffeehouse
/ Owner
/ Economic behavior
/ Family
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| RelBib Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KBJ Italy KBM Asia NCC Social ethics |
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| Summary: | This ethnographic study investigates how Christian Chinese coffee bar owners in Italy deal with conflicts between religious ethics and economic practices, while seeking legitimate moral guidance for the mundane dilemmas they confront in their everyday lives. It situates their religious practices within the context of the intertwined moralities of various social domains that regulate their economic, social, and cultural lives. It illustrates that family values mediate these migrant subjects’ conflicts between their entrepreneurial aspirations and religious morality. This study thus argues that Christianity and family values reinforce each other through everyday religious practices with the latter providing an ethical framework for negotiating moral ambivalence. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Annual review of the sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004443327_002 |