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Understanding How First-Generation Chinese Christians in Singapore Perceive Their Cultural Identity before and after Conversion.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Understanding How First-Generation Chinese Christians in Singapore Perceive Their Cultural Identity before and after Conversion./
Author:	Tey, Alvin Yong Meng.
Description:	1 online resource (320 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-10, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-10A.
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29161332click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798426813922

Understanding How First-Generation Chinese Christians in Singapore Perceive Their Cultural Identity before and after Conversion.
Tey, Alvin Yong Meng.

Understanding How First-Generation Chinese Christians in Singapore Perceive Their Cultural Identity before and after Conversion. - 1 online resource (320 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-10, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Biola University, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

There is literature highlighting that many first-generation Chinese Christians in Singapore struggle with issues regarding their Chinese identity after their Christian conversion. Furthermore, there is an impression among the traditional cultural Chinese that Christianity is Western, and Christian converts tend to compromise or lose their Chinese cultural identity after conversion. While there is research on the historical growth of Christianity in Singapore and the reasons for the conversion of people in Singapore to Christianity, there is no existing research on the perceptions of first-generation Chinese Christians in Singapore regarding their Chinese ethnic cultural identity versus their Christian religious cultural identity. The purpose of this grounded theory qualitative study is to understand how first-generation Chinese Christians in Singapore perceive their cultural identity before and after conversion. For this study, 24 first-generation Chinese Christians in Singapore of different genders, age groups and from both English and Chinese speaking family backgrounds were interviewed to understand their perceptions of Chinese culture, Christianity, and their personal Chinese and Christian cultural identities. Data analysis included initial, focused and theoretical coding. The central finding to emerge from this study is that first-generation Chinese Christians in Singapore move towards a dominant Christian identity after their conversion. In the journey towards a dominant Christian identity, the first-generation Chinese Christians in Singapore tend to go through the following stages of interaction between their Chinese and Christian identities, namely conflict, co-existence and contextualization. This study proposes a theoretical model to illustrate the identity development of first-generation Chinese Christians in Singapore, and also evaluates the applicability of existing identity development models to the experiences of the study participants. This study identifies the gaps in previous research on first-generation Chinese Christians in Singapore, provides useful data on how they perceive their Chinese and Christian identities and how these 2 identities interface.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798426813922Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122764
Cultural anthropology.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Chinese ChristiansIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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