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100	1		_aEcklund, Elaine Howard.
245	1	0	_aKorean American evangelicals : _bnew models for civic life / _cElaine Howard Ecklund.
260			_aOxford ; _aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c2006.
300			_aviii, 211 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 189-198) and index.
505	0		_aReligion 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.
520			_aIn 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.
650		0	_aKorean Americans _xReligion.
650		0	_aChristianity and politics _zUnited States.
650		0	_aChurch work with immigrants _zUnited States.
650		0	_aEvangelicalism _zUnited States.
650		0	_aKorean American churches.
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