Korean American Evangelicals New Models for Civic Life

by Elaine Howard Ecklund

Book Overview

Studies of religion among our nation's newest immigrants largely focus on how religion serves the immigrant community -- for example by creating job networks and helping retain ethnic identity in the second generation. In this book Ecklund widens the inquiry to look at how Korean Americans use religion to negotiate civic responsibility, as well as to create racial and ethnic identity. She compares the views and activities of second generation Korean...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019537259X
• ISBN13: 9780195372595
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"