Renegotiating religious transnationalism

Fractures in transnational Chinese evangelicalism

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3199838
AutoresJonathan Tam (0000-0002-7947-3198, University of Oxford, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume19
Fascículo1
Páginas66-85
Data de publicação2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGlobal Networks (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1470-2266 • E-ISSN: 1471-0374
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/glob.12194
OpenAlexW2800413441
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas20

In this article, I question to what extent future generations of immigrants will engage in practices of religious transnationalism through their ethnic institutions. I examine how leaders of the next generation of English-speaking Chinese Canadian evangelicals made sense of their participation in the Chinese Coordination Centre of World Evangelism, a movement that rallies behind both a pan-Chinese identity and the belief that the Chinese have a special role in evangelizing the world. I argue that the call to religious mobilization grounded in Chinese ethnicity stands on tenuous ground and propose that linguistic, geographical, generational and ideological fractures may diminish the participation of future generations of the Chinese diaspora in ethnically-based transnational religious organizations. I conclude that these developments would push 'negotiated transnational religious networks' into a state of 'renegotiation

Aesthetics · Diaspora · Ethnic group · Evangelism · Ideology · Immigration · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transnationalism · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Religion and Society Interactions