Religious conversion as women's liberation from the family The case of Taiwanese immigrant women

Religious conversion as women's liberation from the family The case of Taiwanese immigrant women

Religious conversion as women's liberation from the family

The case of Taiwanese immigrant women

Chen

Carolyn

Chen, Carolyn

Author

Author

University of California, Berkeley

Center for Working Families

University of California, Berkeley. Center for Working Families

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Berkeley, CA

Berkeley, CA

Center for Working Families, University of California, Berkeley

2002

2002

monographic

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English

eng

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This paper examines how religious conversion to Christianity and Buddhism offers Taiwanese immigrant women spaces of independence from the family. Religion liberates women from traditional social roles by offering alternative conceptions of a genderless self. Through religious conversion, women carve out independent identities for themselves outside of family-defined roles. This new sense of religious purpose in their lives often competes with their commitments to their families.

Carolyn Chen is a post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Working Families, University of California, Berkeley.

Berkeley Center for Working Families Working Paper No. 43

Berkeley Center for Working Families Working Paper No. 43

Berkeley Center for Working Families Working Paper

No. 43

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