Engaging a Spirit From the East: Asian American Christians and Civic Life

Cherry, Stephen M.

doi:10.1080/02732170802584435

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“…This set of findings largely support our third hypothesis. They also comport with previous studies that suggest the influence of religious orientation on Asian American is generally limited to electoral actions (Cherry 2009;Wong et al 2011). 4 Our final hypothesis is that church political homogeneity will more effectively facilitate a politically salient identity among Asian American churchgoers than church racial homogeneity.…”

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 77%

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 70%

“…Churches are a type of institution that fosters political activity among Asian American congregants. The aforementioned development of civic skills that are translatable to political life, such as public speaking, reading, or writing skills, is one such reason for churches' mobilizing effect (Cherry 2009). Additionally, churches expose members to political information and spur greater political interest and sophistication.…”

Section: Asian American Churches As Sites Of Identity Social Capitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Previous studies that have examined the role of religion for Asian Americans indicate that churches increase participation only for a limited set of political actions. Wong et al (2011) and Cherry (2009) find that Christian religious affiliation and church attendance are positively associated with an electoral activity such as registering and voting, yet not system-challenging actions such as protesting and signing petitions. Liu (2011) explores the relationship between racial homogeneity in the church and voter turnout solely.…”

Section: Structural Relational and Cognitive Social Capital In Polimentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Ties that Bind: Assessing the Effects of Political and Racial Church Homogeneity on Asian American Political Participation

Chan

Phoenix

2020

Politics and Religion

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Research consistently emphasizes the importance of religious institutions for influencing political action among Asian Americans. The social capital literature offers two theoretical explanations for why churches increase political activity: bridging capital between different groups and bonding capital among similar groups. The latter argues that individuals who attend racially homogeneous churches are more participatory. This paper expands on these accounts by examining another aspect of bonding. That is, how does similarity in political views among church members affect Asian Americans' political participation? Results from the 2016 Collaborative Multi-Racial Post-Election Survey show that Asian Americans who attend politically homogeneous churches are more likely to vote and participate in conventional activities. The effects of racial homogeneity are limited once taking political homogeneity into consideration. These findings provide evidence that political homophily within religious organizations may facilitate the bonding of social capital between racial/ethnic minorities, and this homophily is indeed salient to democratic participation.

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Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 77%

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 70%

Section: Asian American Churches As Sites Of Identity Social Capitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Structural Relational and Cognitive Social Capital In Polimentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Ties that Bind: Assessing the Effects of Political and Racial Church Homogeneity on Asian American Political Participation

Chan

Phoenix

2020

Politics and Religion

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“…Although our findings suggest a more complex role of religion in disaster response than previous studies, including the role of non-religious associations and groups, they are consistent with what has begun to emerge in the broader religion and civic engagement literature, including those looking specifically at Asian American Christians. Where both Ecklund and Park (2007) and Cherry (2009) find that participation in religious activities beyond church is important to Asian American civic engagement, we find a similar pattern of results among Filipino American Catholics specifically. However, unlike Cherry (2009), we find that non-religious groups also play a part in Filipino American civic engagement.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 71%

Faith against the storm: Filipino immigrant mobilizations for Hurricane Katrina evacuees

Cherry

Lucas

2016

Social Compass

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Hurricane Katrina forced one of the largest internal migrations of people in US history. Among the evacuees were 28,000 Filipino Americans many of whom fled to Houston. In a short period of time, Filipino American Catholic Houstonians relocated their co-ethnics with host families, facilitated documents needed for US federal aid (FEMA), provided material assistance, and addressed evacuee medical needs through the establishment and staffing of a crisis triage clinic. Drawing on ethnographic and survey data we explore the factors that impacted and shaped Filipino American community participation and volunteerism during the events of Hurricane Katrina and after. We found that both religious and non-religious organizations were vital in the mobilization of Filipino Americans during the Katrina relief effort and subsequent natural disaster1 responses.

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