TY - JOUR
AU - Yü, Chün-fang
AB - 574 Journal of the American Academy of Religion of merely describe. Such critiques call into question Kim’s straightforward typological application of liberal Protestant assumptions that still lace the sociol- ogy of religion, such as her use of H. Richard Niebuhr’s Social Sources of Denominationalism to explain UBF’s shift from being considered a sect to operat- ing like a church in the American evangelical sense. So too, they might push Kim to articulate a critical theoretical distance between her scholarly reflections and the answers from her interviewers about perceptions of Koreanness and Americanization, allowing the reader to question the coherence of such ideologi- cal constructs instead of listening to the author insist on a fit between grounded practice and ideal types. Such critique would guide us away from asking how Kim supports her typological conclusions and toward an inquiry as to how Kim’s rich data disturbs the ideal types of Koreanness, Americanization, and global Christianity, showing them to be constructed at best, ideologically inconsistent in practice, and theoretically productive in the service of ideological critique. This line of questioning suggests that The Spirit Moves West might be taken as a crossroads for those in religious studies working on race and 
TI - Spreading Buddha's Word in East Asia: The Formation and Transformation of the Chinese Buddhist Canon . Edited by Jiang Wu & Lucille Chia
JF - Journal of the American Academy of Religion
DO - 10.1093/jaarel/lfw020
DA - 2016-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/spreading-buddha-s-word-in-east-asia-the-formation-and-transformation-aLETDbDqaz
SP - 574
EP - 578
VL - 84
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -