Sacred Changes: Multiracial Alliances and Community Trans/formation among Evangelical Churches in the U.S.

Team Members/Contributors

Karen L. Yonemoto University of Southern California Contact Me

About this dissertation fellowship

Sacred Changes: Multiracial Alliances & Community Trans/formation among Evangelical Churches in the U.S. offers the Asian American evangelical church as a critical window to understand intersections of race, religion and social change in the 21st century U.S. Although the United States has remained fragmented across racial lines for over two centuries, scholars of religion note that religious institutions have not been active in bridging this racial divide. Sacred Changes argues that contemporary Asian American evangelical churches are reshaping the racial and political landscape of the United States in two significant ways: First, I suggest that Asian American churches sit at the forefront of developing new models of multiracial alliance building among the evangelical community. And second, I argue that Asian American evangelical churches are pioneering new approaches to mobilize their congregants toward social change in the local and global community. This dissertation is based on three years of ethnographic research conducted at three Asian American evangelical churches in Los Angeles—Evergreen Baptist Church, Newsong Community Church and Epicentre Church. Sacred Changes contributes to the discourses of American Religion and provides insight to the religious experiences and social responses of American evangelicals in the 21st century.

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  "Sacred Changes: Multiracial Alliances & Community Transformation Among Asian American Churches in the U.S." 2009 Dissertation Karen L. Yonemoto