From filial piety to religious piety The immigrant church reconstructing Taiwanese immigrant families and parent-child relations

From filial piety to religious piety

The immigrant church reconstructing Taiwanese immigrant families and parent-child relations

Chen

Carolyn

Chen, Carolyn

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University of California, Berkeley

Center for Working Families

University of California, Berkeley. Center for Working Families

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Center for Working Families, University of California, Berkeley

2002

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This paper shows how the immigrant church offers Taiwanese immigrants solutions to deal with the parenting and family problems that they encounter in the United States. Through the immigrant church, evangelical Christinity reconstructs family relationships by placing Christ as the new moral authority of the family and consecrating more democratic relationships between parents and children. Under this new moral construct of the family, evangelical Christianity simultaneously legitimates more “American” arrangements and preserves key traditional family values.

Carolyn Chen is a post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Working Families.

Berkeley Center for Working Families Working Paper No. 54

Berkeley Center for Working Families Working Paper

No. 54

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