Category Archives: Reading Responses

Traditional Jewish teaching encourages an individual to study the week’s Torah portion three times throughout the week- twice in Hebrew, and once in translation. Why in translation? Because though Hebrew is the original language of the Bible, we understand that … Continue reading →

Notes I took down while we were at the Muslim Center of NY. People come everyday. Students come after school to learn about the Quran Majority of the people are from the South Continent, which includes India, Pakistan. Some Europeans … Continue reading →

Before our study of Chinatown I never payed much attention to it nor to the religious communities that thrive there simply because I never visited that area.  Before reading this book I didn’t know which religion would dominate Chinatown.  However, … Continue reading →

Considering the Chinese population in New York is so vast, I found it interesting that there were no in depth studies of the religion of these people prior to guest’s work. I also found it interesting how many different Chinese … Continue reading →

Chapter 5 examines the complexity of the religious institutions in Chinatown. Although its nature is focused on a condensed location, many of these characteristics are also embodied in the cases we have studied throughout the class. The Fuzhounese involvement of … Continue reading →

In this chapter we delve deeper into the religious communities of New York City, focusing particularly on religious institutions that are identified as Chinese. The study that was mentioned consists of eighty-four religious institutions, of which fifty-nine were identified as … Continue reading →

In chapter 5 we are faced with the question of religion and what defines how religious one is. Coming from communist China where religion was very oppressed, many immigrants were unsure of their religious affiliation. This was partly due to … Continue reading →

Chinatown’s religious life is a landscape indeed: made up of many intertwined elements coming together to make a beautiful, expansive scene. I found it particularly striking that although we may compartmentalize religions in the U.S., it is not always so … Continue reading →

While reading this chapter of God in Chinatown, I saw just how much research Kenneth Guest put into this book. Obviously it is impossible to write a informative book without extensive research, but the statistics and other information of the … Continue reading →

This week’s chapter was about the primarily Fuzhounese religious congregations in Chinatown.  To gather data for this section, Guest had to do a lot of research.  He checked open to the public resources like Yellow Pages, but he had to … Continue reading →