Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience

by Carolyn Chen

Book Overview

What does becoming American have to do with becoming religious? Many immigrants become more religious after coming to the United States. Taiwanese are no different. Like many Asian immigrants to the United States, Taiwanese frequently convert to Christianity after immigrating. But Americanization is more than simply a process of Christianization. Most Taiwanese American Buddhists also say they converted only after arriving in the United States even...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691119627
• ISBN13: 9780691119625
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"