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Chinese Christians in America : conversion, assimilation, and adhesive identities / Fenggang Yang.

By: Yang, Fenggang
Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: x, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0271019174 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0271019166 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Chinese Americans -- Religion -- Case studies | Chinese Christian Church of Washington, D.C. (Washington, D.C.)DDC classification: 280/.4/0899510753 LOC classification: BR563.C45 | Y36 1999Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-227) and index.
Contents:
Assimilation, ethnicity, and religion -- Chinese immigrants, cultural traditions, and changing identities -- Becoming Christian -- Becoming American -- Preserving Chinese culture -- Deconstructing the Chinese identity, reconstructing adhesive identities.

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Catholic University of America, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-227) and index.

Assimilation, ethnicity, and religion -- Chinese immigrants, cultural traditions, and changing identities -- Becoming Christian -- Becoming American -- Preserving Chinese culture -- Deconstructing the Chinese identity, reconstructing adhesive identities.

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