{"id":2541,"date":"2011-11-25T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/11\/what-asian-american-religion-tells-us-about-religious-incongruity.html"},"modified":"2011-11-25T10:09:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T10:09:00","slug":"what-asian-american-religion-tells-us-about-religious-incongruity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/11\/what-asian-american-religion-tells-us-about-religious-incongruity.html","title":{"rendered":"What Asian American Religion Tells Us About Religious Incongruity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

So as you\u2019ve probably figured out, I am fascinated by Asian Americans and their religions. And wherever possible I try to find the best examples that can shed light on this population because they help us to learn about how we know anything about religion today, and how we need to improve what we know. I mentioned earlier that sociologists are struggling over how to identify Asian Americans and their religious preferences <\/a>in surveys. And I alluded to the problem that people with \u201cno religion\u201d might in fact be religious <\/a>.
What makes someone religious? In the minds of many it could simply be belief in God, or it could be praying, reading a sacred text, or attending a religious service on a regular basis. Sociologists describe this as measures of religiosity. We tend to think of\u00a0religiosity in two forms: beliefs and behavior. Note: you can believe all kinds of things, and practice all kinds of rituals and say that you\u2019re a Christian or that you have no religion. It\u2019s what Brad Wright summarized<\/a> in a recent argument made by sociologist Mark Chaves: most religious people experience incongruity between what they say they are, what they believe, and what they do. Asian Americans are no exception. To get an idea about how incongruity might look like we can examine the connection between one measure of religiosity, church attendance, and religious affiliation (how someone identifies their religion) among Asian Americans.<\/p>\n

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