02759cam a2200289 4500 2720156208 TxAuBib 20260401120000.0 ||||||s2003||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780814733356 0814733352 B004DTRYS0 Amazon 6194c8e1-fe4b-4cb6-9801-45a7217685cf OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2902550 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Guest, Kenneth J. God in Chinatown [Libby eBook] : Religion and Survival in New York's Evolving Immigrant Community. NYU Press, 2003. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p><b>An insightful look into the central role of religious community in the largest contemporary wave of new immigrants to New York Chinatown yet</b><br /> <b><br /> God in Chinatown</b> 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 Christianity.<br /> This ethnographic study examines the central role of these religious communities in the immigrant incorporation process in Chinatown's highly stratified ethnic enclave, as well as the transnational networks established between religious communities in New York and China. The author's knowledge of Chinese coupled with his extensive fieldwork in both China and New York enable him to illuminate how these networks transmit religious and social dynamics to the United States, as well as how these new American institutions influence religious and social relations in the religious revival sweeping southeastern China.<br /> <b>God in Chinatown</b> is the first study to bring to light religion's significant role in the Fuzhounese immigrants' dramatic transformation of the face of New York's Chinatown.</p>. Religion & Spirituality. Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-03-31 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6194c8e1-fe4b-4cb6-9801-45a7217685cf&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6194c8e1-fe4b-4cb6-9801-45a7217685cf&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)