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Persistence amid transition: The views of Malay students in America on ethnic identity and religious change in the context of Malay history and culture.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Persistence amid transition: The views of Malay students in America on ethnic identity and religious change in the context of Malay history and culture./
Author:	Matanick, Philip.
Description:	597 p.
Notes:	Adviser: A. H. Mathias Zahniser.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International56-11A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9608028

Persistence amid transition: The views of Malay students in America on ethnic identity and religious change in the context of Malay history and culture.
Matanick, Philip.

Persistence amid transition: The views of Malay students in America on ethnic identity and religious change in the context of Malay history and culture. - 597 p.

Adviser: A. H. Mathias Zahniser.

Thesis (D.Mis.)--Asbury Theological Seminary, 1995.

The Malay people of Malaysia have had a Christian witness for centuries, and yet remain resistant to Christian evangelization efforts. This study seeks to understand why this is so, by presenting a profile of the Malays. The thesis is that the Malays have been historically, culturally, and religiously conditioned to be resistant to Christian overtures. This is defended through three prongs: historical investigation, religio-cultural analysis, and an empirical study of modern Malay university students in the United States.Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Persistence amid transition: The views of Malay students in America on ethnic identity and religious change in the context of Malay history and culture.
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245 1 0 $a Persistence amid transition: The views of Malay students in America on ethnic identity and religious change in the context of Malay history and culture.
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500 $a Adviser: A. H. Mathias Zahniser.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-11, Section: A, page: 4427.
502 $a Thesis (D.Mis.)--Asbury Theological Seminary, 1995.
520 $a The Malay people of Malaysia have had a Christian witness for centuries, and yet remain resistant to Christian evangelization efforts. This study seeks to understand why this is so, by presenting a profile of the Malays. The thesis is that the Malays have been historically, culturally, and religiously conditioned to be resistant to Christian overtures. This is defended through three prongs: historical investigation, religio-cultural analysis, and an empirical study of modern Malay university students in the United States.
520 $a The first prong, that of the historical investigation, demonstrates that the successive colonization of Malaya by Western nations that identified themselves as Christian, coupled with the Christian missions' close association with the colonial administrations, their implication in policies seen by the Malays as detrimental to the Malays, and their neglect of the Malay people have led to a Malay antagonism against and fierce resistance to Christianity.
520 $a The second prong, the religio-cultural study, analyses the relationship between Malay ethnic identity and normative Islam. A strong attachment to Islam coalesces with an exclusivistic Malay ethnic identity to make the Malays see Christianity as foreign to who they are as a people. The fact that Malays get their personal identity from the group militates against individual Malays breaking the social and religious barrier to considering Christianity as a viable option.
520 $a The third prong of the study entails the findings of interviews of Malay university students in the United States. The information adds to the preceding by giving a firsthand account of what Malays believe about Islam and how they practice it. It also shows their understanding of Islam's relation to the state, and their view of their Malay identity in relation to Islam and other religions, especially Christianity.
520 $a The interviews also test whether Malay international students display the openness to religious innovation that is typical of many internationals, and whether their exposure to American culture over time causes them to change their views on Christianity. We discover that the Malays in the United States retreat into a Malay ethnic enclave mentality that prohibits free inquiry and causes them to maintain their allegiance to Islam. In some cases, moreover, the relative lack of external, societal pressure to conform to Islam leads them to internalize their faith, and thus become more personally committed to Islam.
520 $a The study concludes by noting that the rapidly changing Malay society is shattering traditional lifestyles and strong kinship ties, potentially weakening the societal barriers to receptivity to Christianity. In addition, we conclude that Malays overall have never been the object of concerted and thoughtful evangelization efforts, and that Malays do respond favorably to Christian gestures of kindness. Finally, a massive prayer movement is mobilizing to effect the evangelization of Malays. Knowledgeable, selfless, cross-ethnic and cross-cultural witnesses, empowered by God, are needed to bring a clear picture of Jesus Christ to the Malays.
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