TY - BOOK AU - Ecklund,Elaine Howard TI - Korean American evangelicals: new models for civic life SN - 0195305493 AV - BR 563 .K67 .E28 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Korean Americans KW - Religion KW - Christianity and politics KW - United States KW - Church work with immigrants KW - Evangelicalism KW - Korean American churches N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-198) and index; Religion and civic life for Korean Americans -- Theoretical interlude : a cultural approach to connecting institutions and Identities -- Religion, race, and ethnicity in two churches -- Models of civic responsibility -- Civic identities -- Civic models and community service -- Evangelicalism and politics for Korean Americans -- Implications for institutional change -- Appendix A : Data and methods -- Appendix B : Interview and survey guides N2 - 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 Americans in two different congregational settings, one ethnically Korean and the other multi-ethnic. Surprisingly, she finds that the Korean churches de-emphasize ethnicity. They look like other evangelical congregations and are concerned about evangelizing in the context of providing social services. Multiethnic churches, in contrast, use evangelical Christianity to legitimate a political and social justice consciousness that values ethnic diversity and individualized understanding of faith in the context of a conservative Christianity. Korean Americans in both kinds of churches are deeply concerned about helping those in their local community, including non-Koreans and non-Christians. In multiethnic churches, however, Korean Americans also develop an awareness of local politics and a concern with social justice for other ethnic and racial minorities. Ecklund's work is based on ethnographic data from two congregations in one impoverished, primarily non-white city on the east coast, which provided the opportunity to compare how members of each practiced community service in the same urban context. She also conducted more than 100 in-depth interviews with Korean American members of these and seven other churches around the country, and draws extensively on the secondary literature on immigrant religion, American civic life, and Korean American religion ER -