| Description |
1 online resource (237 pages) |
| Series |
Religion, Race, & Ethnicity |
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Religion, Race, & Ethnicity
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction:Walking on Water; 1 Chinatown and the Fuzhounese; 2 Fuzhou: Diasporic Traditio; 3 Religion in Fuzhou: An Overview; 4 Religion in Fuzhou: Spotlight on Christianity; 5 Chinatown's Religious Landscape:The Fuzhounese Presence; 6 "Come unto Me All Ye That Labor and Are Heavy Laden":Building Fuzhounese Protestant Churches in New York's Chinatown; 7 Safe Harbor; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
| Summary |
God in Chinatown is a path breaking study of the largest contemporary wave of new immigrants to Chinatown. Since the 1980s, tens of thousands of mostly rural Chinese have migrated from Fuzhou, on China's southeastern coast, to New York's Chinatown. Like the Cantonese who comprised the previous wave of migrants, the Fuzhou have brought with them their religious beliefs, practices, and local deities. In recent years these immigrants have established numerous specifically Fuzhounese religious communities, ranging from Buddhist, Daoist, and Chinese popular religion to Protestant and Catholic Chris |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-219) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Chinese Americans -- Religious life -- New York (State) -- New York
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Immigrants -- Religious life -- New York (State) -- New York
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Chinese Americans -- Religious life
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Immigrants -- Religious life
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| SUBJECT |
Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97020484
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| Subject |
New York (State) -- New York
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New York (State) -- New York -- Chinatown
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814733356 |
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0814733352 |
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