Publication Type

Book Chapter

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

2020

Abstract

Recent treatments of Asian American evangelicals tend to focus on a shift of attention from their identity-based attempts to found autonomous congregrations to online self-publications. I evaluate this new trend by considering two episodes in Asian American evangelical self-publication: the 'open letter to the evangelical church' in 2013 and the Killjoy Prophets initiative from 2014-2016 when their leader Suey Park disappeared from the Internet. I argue that while Asian American evangelical online self-publication is intended to reform evangelicalism, its discursive nature leads to debates among Asian American evangelicals about whether the cyber-discourse about them is adequately representational. This sobering analysis demonstrates that the identitarian claims of Asian American evangelicalism are not transcended by cyberspace, but are exacerbated by it.

Keywords

Cyberspace, Asian American, evangelicalism, reform

Discipline

Asian Studies | Religion

Research Areas

Humanities

Publication

Religion, hypermobility and digital media in global Asia: Faith, flows and fellowship

Editor

Catherine Jean Gomes, Lily Kong, and Orlando Woods

First Page

179

Last Page

201

ISBN

9789463728935

Identifier

10.1515/9789048552108-010

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

City or Country

Amsterdam

Embargo Period

8-16-2021

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048552108-010

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