'Love your China' and evangelise: Religion, nationalism, racism and immigrant settlement in Canada

Ethnography and Education

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 61-79

  Han, Huamei ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Banal nationalism; Evangelical Christianity; Evangelistic conferences; Immigrant settlement; Racialisation racism

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957521984     PISSN: 17457823     EISSN: 17457831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17457823.2011.553080     Document Type: Article

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