Status
Available
Call number
Publication
New York University Press
DDC/MDS
200.89 |
Description
God in Chinatown is a path breaking study of the largest contemporary wave of new immigrants to Chinatown. Since the 1980's, 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 Christians...
ISBN
0814731546 / 9780814731543