Working-Class, Korean-American Women Navigating Marriage Through Evangelical Christianity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3000279 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Seongeun Kim (0009-0007-9433-8836, 25 Yearsley Mill Road, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, Brandywine, Media, PA 19063.), Seong‐Eun Kim (0000-0002-6310-5366, Pennsylvania Department of Human Services, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 735-748 |
| Publication date | 2010-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Comparative Family Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2328 • E-ISSN: 1929-9850 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/jcfs.41.5.735 |
| OpenAlex | W2600008717 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 13 |
This study examines how working-class, Korean-American, evangelical women navigate patriarchal marriage through evangelical Christianity, based upon in-depth interviews with 17 women working-class, Korean-American, evangelical women in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. While the growing body of literature on religion, gender, and Asian-American marriage investigates women's rejection of patriarchal traditions through the practice of religions, current research literature fails to capture socioeconomically less privileged women's use of religion in their marriage. The findings of this study show that working-class, Korean-American women use evangelical teachings and faith to negotiate their power in marital conflict and the division of household labor, to encourage husbands' involvement with family, and persuade family members' into becoming committed evangelical Christians. These women did so by bargaining gender expectation with husbands' religious commitment, taking primary responsibility of housework, becoming submissive, and creating invisible resistance to their husbands. In such processes, women employ the act of prayer to negotiate gender relations and bring reform to their husbands' behavior. The research findings suggest that religion plays an important role in dealing with problems in working-class, Asian-American women's marriage and further improving their family life. By exploring working-class, Korean-American women's complex motives and intentions of maintaining traditional gender relations and negotiating gender relations using evangelical Christianity, this study addresses the significance of religion in pious Asian-American women's marriage and their use of religion in culture and class-specific ways
Christianity · Evangelism · Faith · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Working class · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2022 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |