Seeking the Christian Tutelage: Agency and Culture in Chinese Immigrants' Conversion to Christianity

This paper explores the social mechanism through which assimilation and ethnic identification can be conceptualized not as mutually exclusive, but instead as intimately involved. Based on an ethnographic study of a Chinese immigrant church, this study finds that aspects of Chinese culture, particula...

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Main Author: Ng, Kwai Hang (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Oxford Univ. Press 2002
In: Sociology of religion
Year: 2002, Volume: 63, Issue: 2, Pages: 195-214
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