God in Chinatown
Subtitle: Religion and Survival in New York's Evolving Immigrant Community (Religion, Race, and Ethnicity)
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: August 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780814731536
Subjects: Cultural studies; Immigration & emigration; Religion & Beliefs; Religious life; Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies; Eastern - General; Sociology of Religion; Ethnic Issues; Religion; China; New York; Immigrants; Emigration & Immigration; Chinese Americans; Sociology; Anthropology - General; New York (State)
First sentence: On a spring Sunday afternoon in 1999 I stood in the fellowship hall of the Church of Grace to the Fujianese in Chinatown, on New York's Lower East Side, eating lunch with about 150 recently arrived immigrants.