God in Chinatown by Kenneth J. Guest - 9780814731536

God in ChinatownReligion and Survival in New York's Evolving Immigrant Community\nAuthor(s): Kenneth J. Guest\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814731536, 978-0814731536\nSynopsis\nAn insightful look into the central role of religious community in the largest contemporary wave of new immigrants to New York Chinatown yet\n God in Chinatown is a path breaking study of the largest contemporary wave of new immigrants to Chinatown. Since the 1980s, tens of thousands of mostly rural Chinese have migrated from Fuzhou, on China's southeastern coast, to New York's Chinatown. Like the Cantonese who comprised the previous wave of migrants, the Fuzhou have brought with them their religious beliefs, practices, and local deities. In recent years these immigrants have established numerous specifically Fuzhounese religious communities, ranging from Buddhist, Daoist, and Chinese popular religion to Protestant and C.