1st Edition
The Evangelical Church in Boston's Chinatown A Discourse of Language, Gender, and Identity
By Erika A. Muse
Copyright 2005
228 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
The purpose of this book is to provide valuable anthropological data on the identity construction of a rapidly growing Chinese Christian population in the United States. As more and more Chinese of different generations and varying cultural backgrounds practice evangelical Christianity, the meaning of Chinese American will change accordingly. The book provides significant linguistic data for a... Read more
Editorial method Acknowledgments Preface Chapter one: Saving souls in chinatown: church and community Chapter two: Accounting for diversity -a comparison of case studies Chapter three: Cultural histories and christian traditions Chapter four: Text and performing ethnicity Chapter five: Separateness of church - Counter-culture christianity and the model minority Chapter six: Discourse public and private-performing gender Chapter seven: conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Erika A. Muse is an Anthropologist with a research focus on Chinese American Christianity and discourse analysis. She teaches anthropology and humanities at the Albany College of Pharmacy. She recently contributed a number of articles to the Asian American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia.
