The church as a surrogate family for working class immigrant chinese youth: An ethnography of segmented assimilation

Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 183-200

  Cao, Nanlai ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646570861     PISSN: 10694404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4153085     Document Type: Review

References (32)

1. Bankston, C. L., III, and M. Zhou.1996. The Ethnic churches, Ethnic identification, and the social adjustment of Vietnamese adolescents. Review of Religious Research 38 (September): 18-37.
2. Busto, R. V. 1999. The gospel according to the model minority?: Hazarding an interpretation of Asian American evangelical college students. In New spiritual homes: Religion and Asian Americans, edited by D. K. Yoo. 169-187. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
3. Cayton, H. R., and A. O. Lively. 1955. The Chinese in the United States and the Chinese Christian church. New York: Bureau of Research and Survey, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States.
4. Chai, K. J. 1998. Competing for the second generation: English-language ministry at a Korean Protestant church. In Gatherings in Diaspora: Religious communities and the new immigration, edited by R. S. Warner and J. G. Wittner, 295-331. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
5. Chong, K. H. 1998. What it means to be Christian: The role of religion in the construction of ethnic identity and boundary among second generation Korean Americans. Sociology of Religion 59 (3): 259-286.
6. Dolan, J. 1975. The immigrant church: New York's Irish and German Catholics. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.
7. Ebaugh, H. R., and J. S. Chafetz, eds. 2000. Religion and the new immigrants: Continuities and adaptations in immigrant congregations. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira.
8. Freedman, M. 1966. Chinese linkage and society: Fukien and Kwangtung. London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology No. 33. New York: Humanities Press.
9. Hurh, W. M., and K. C. Kim. 1990. Religious participation of Korean immigrants in the United States, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 29 (March): 19-34
10. Hsu, F. L. K. 1971. The challenge of the American dream: The Chinese in the United States. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth.
11. _. 1972. Americans and Chinese: Reflections on two cultures and their people. New York: American Museum of Science Books.
12. Kwong, P. 1996. The new Chinatown, 2nd ed. New York: Hill and Wang.
13. Lin, J. 1998. Restructuring Chinatown: Ethnic enclave, global change. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
14. Lin, T., and M. Lin. 1978. Service delivery issues in Asian-North American communities. American Journal of Psychiatry 135 (4): 454-456.
15. Min, P. G. 1992. The structure and social functions of Korean immigrant churches in the United States, International Migration Review 26 (Winter): 370-94.
16. Ng, K. H. 2002. Seeking the Christian tutelage: Agency and culture in Chinese immigrants' conversion to Christianity. Sociology of Religion 63 (2): 195-214.
17. Palinkas, L. A. 1988. Traditions and change in an immigrant Chinese church in California. In Culture and Christianity, edited by G. Saunders, 117-33. New York: Greenwood Press.
18. _. 1989. Rhetoric and religious experience: The discourse of immigrant Chinese churches. Fairfax: George Mason University Press.
19. Portes, A., and R. Rumbaut. 2001. Legacies: The story of the immigrant second generation. Berkeley: University of California Press.
20. Sung, B. L. 1987. The adjustment experience of Chinese immigrant children in New York City. New York: Center for Migration Studies.
21. Warner, R. S. 1998. Introduction: Immigration and religious communities in the United States. In Gatherings in Diaspora: Religious communities and the new immigration, edited by R. S. Warner and J. G. Wittner, 3-34. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
22. Warner, R. S., and J. G. Wittner, eds. 1998. Gatherings in Diaspora: Religious communities and the new immigration. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
23. Williams, R. B. 1988. Religions of immigrants from India and Pakistan: New threads in the American tapestry. New York: Cambridge University Press.
24. Woo, W. 1991. Chinese Protestants in the San Francisco bay area. In Entry denied: Exclusion and the Chinese in America, 1882-1943, edited by S. Chan, 213-45. PA: Temple University Press.
25. Yang, F. 1998a. Tenacious unity in a contentious community: Cultural and religious dynamics in a Chinese Christian church. In Gatherings in Diaspora: Religious communities and the new immigration, edited by R. S. Warner and J. G. Wittner, 333-61. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
26. _. 1998b. Chinese conversion to Evangelical Christianity. Sociology of Religion 59: 237-57.
27. _. 1999a. Chinese Christians in America: Conversion, assimilation, and adhesive identities. Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press.
28. _. 1999b. ABC and XYZ: Religious, ethnic and racial identities of the new second generation Chinese in Christian churches. Amerasia Journal 25 (1): 89-115.
29. _. 2000. The Chinese gospel church: The Sinicization of Christianity. In Religion and the new immigrants: Continuities and adaptations in immigrant congregations, edited by H. R. Ebaugh and J. S. Chafetz, 89-107. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira.
30. Zhou, M., and C. L. Bankston III. 1998. Growing up American: How Vietnamese children adapt to life in the United States. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
31. Zhou, M. 1992. Chinatown: The socioeconomic potential of an urban enclave. Philadelphia: Temple University Press
32. _. 1997. Social capital in Chinatown: The role of community-based organizations and families in the adaptation of the younger generation. In Beyond Black and White: New faces and voices in U.S. schools, edited by M. Seller and L. Weis, 181-205. Albany, New York: SUNY Press