Korean American Evangelicals: New Models for Civic Life
Sociologist Elaine Howard Ecklund's book convincingly details how the American evangelical church provides moral schemas for members to become “good” civic Americans. In her ethnographic work on two Korean American congregations, she suggests that they promote different frameworks of their memb...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2009
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2009, Volume: 70, Issue: 1, Pages: 93-94 |
| Review of: | Korean American evangelicals (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006) (Jeung, Russell)
Korean American evangelicals (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006) (Jeung, Russell) |
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| Summary: | Sociologist Elaine Howard Ecklund's book convincingly details how the American evangelical church provides moral schemas for members to become “good” civic Americans. In her ethnographic work on two Korean American congregations, she suggests that they promote different frameworks of their members' social locations and civic identities. Although the two churches appear similar in race, social class, and even evangelical affiliation, their members approach civic life and volunteer in their local city in divergent ways. Korean American Evangelicals is thus more than a description of this ethnic group, but an inventive analysis of how religion can construct incipient sociopolitical identities. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srp007 |