New book! Korean American Evangelicals

Elaine Howard Ecklund, Korean American Evangelicals: New Models for Civic Life (NY: Oxford University Press, 2006)

In Korean American Evangelicals, Elaine Howard Ecklund examines how Korean Americans use evangelical Christianity to negotiate local civic responsibility and create racial and ethnic identities. She compares the views and activities of second-generation Korean Americans in ethnically Korean and multi-ethnic churches, finding that both types of congregations have distinctly different models for relating to their local communities, particularly to low-income minorities. Ecklund's work will be useful to scholars as well as churches leaders and pastors. Elaine Howard Ecklund is an assistant professor of sociology at the University at Buffalo, SUNY and an affiliate research fellow of the Rice University Center on Race, Religion, and Urban Life. She can be reached at this link.