The Ironies of Bringing Christ to the Motherland: The Interaction Ritual Chains of Chinese-Canadian Evangelicals over Short-Term Missions to China
This chapter examines short-term missions’ (stms) impact upon its participants’ sense of social solidarity by interrogating the intersections of their religious (i.e. evangelical), ethnic (i.e. “Chinese”), and national (i.e. “Canadian”) identities. stms are trips that entail an individual travelling...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2020]
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| In: |
Annual review of the sociology of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 11, Pages: 138-156 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Canada
/ Chinese people
/ Evangelical movement
/ Religious identity
/ Ethnic identity
/ National consciousness
/ China
/ Missionary journey
/ Voluntary service
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KBM Asia KBQ North America KDG Free church RJ Mission; missiology |
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| Summary: | This chapter examines short-term missions’ (stms) impact upon its participants’ sense of social solidarity by interrogating the intersections of their religious (i.e. evangelical), ethnic (i.e. “Chinese”), and national (i.e. “Canadian”) identities. stms are trips that entail an individual travelling to engage in a type of voluntary social service, often in tandem with proselytization. My multi-sited ethnography follows four stm teams deployed to China and Taiwan by Chinese Canadian evangelical churches in 2015. I accomplish this by applying interaction ritual chains theory. My findings reveal that youths negotiate complex meanings in their transnational experiences and contradictions which I call “ironies” emerge. I propose the theoretical modification of “entangled chains” to interaction ritual chains and discuss its implications for understanding social solidarity. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Annual review of the sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004443327_009 |