Religious Conversion and Religious Zeal in an Overseas Enclave: The Case of the Japanese in Bolivia

Thompson, Stephen I.

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“…In both popular culture and the scientific community, converts to new religious beliefs are believed to be more committed to their faith than those brought up in the religion (hereafter, nonconverts; Pond & Smith, 2009). Thompson (1968, p. 201) goes so far as to insist that “there must be some objective basis” for the purported fanaticism of the convert. Even outside the religious context the phrase “zeal of the convert” is used to describe anyone who is fiercely devoted to their beliefs (Wilkinson, 1976).…”

Section: Conversion and Subsequent Religiousnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Zeal of the convert? Comparing religiousness between convert and nonconvert Muslims.

Snook¹,

Branum‐Martin²,

Horgan³

2022

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

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In popular culture, converts are thought to be more zealous than those brought up in the same religion (i.e., nonconverts). This is particularly relevant in the context of Islam in Western countries, where outsiders sometimes view conversion to Islam as a harbinger of religious violence rather than a legitimate expression of a search for meaning and truth. However, there is insufficient empirical evidence to suggest that converts believe more strongly and nonconverts. To bridge this gap, this study compares Islamic religiousness, as measured by the Psychological Measure of Islamic Religiousness (PMIR; Abu-Raiya et al., 2008), between convert and nonconvert US Muslims. Results demonstrate that converts believe in Islamic tenets less strongly and struggle more with the Islamic faith than nonconverts. This finding calls the conventional wisdom that converts are more zealous than other believers into question.

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Section: Conversion and Subsequent Religiousnessmentioning

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Zeal of the convert? Comparing religiousness between convert and nonconvert Muslims.

Snook¹,

Branum‐Martin²,

Horgan³

2022

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

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“…By the mid-1960s, there had been a new proliferation of Japanese associations, the Peru Shinpo had resumed publication, supplemented by several Japanese-language magazines, and four Japanese-language schools had reopened (Arakaki,). Since I have described this ethnic resurrection elsewhere (Thompson, 1974) and since Wong evidently accepts the accuracy of that account, I shall not belabor the point here. Instead I shall attempt to outline its possible causes.…”

Section: Peruvian Society;mentioning

confidence: 94%

“…Arakaki, whose study of Peruvian Nisei was originally a Master's thesis at the Catholic University, comments rather disapprovingly on the "shallowness" of Christianity among Peruvian Japanese (n.d.: 74). Evidence from Canada (Young and Reid, 1938: 106) and Bolivia (Thompson, 1968) indicates that conversion to Christianity among overseas Japanese may reflect mere political lip service to the national religion of the adopted country.…”

Section: Peruvian Society;mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is significant that this public relations gesture, designed to demonstrate the intimacy of the tie between the ethnic community and the host country, simultaneously symbolized Japanese ethnic pride. It was moreover only one of a number of comparable manifestations of the maintenance of a high level of ethnic consciousness among Japanese-Peruvians (for further examples, see Thompson, 1974).…”

Section: Peruvian Society;mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Assimilation and Nonassimilation of Asian-Americans and Asian Peruvians

Thompson

1979

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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In a recent paper in this journal, Bernard Wong (1978) compares the assimilative experiences of Chinese in New York City and Lima, Peru. He concludes that the Lima Chinese are substantially more assimilated than their New York counterparts and attributes this distinction in part to differences in the attitudes of the larger societies in which the two Chinese communities are embedded. Discriminatory immigration and miscegenation laws and endemic racism in the United States inhibited the assimilation of the New York Chinese, while a substantially lower level of racial prejudice and official discrimination in Peru facilitated the assimilative process there.

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“…For insight on the problems of assimilation and acculturation, see Tigner (1963: 228) and Thompson (1968Thompson ( : 201-208, 1970. For additional background in this discipline, see .…”

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Japanese Settlement in Eastern Bolivia and Brazil

Tigner

1982

J. inter-Am. stud. world aff.

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Religious Conversion and Religious Zeal in an Overseas Enclave: The Case of the Japanese in Bolivia

Cited by 8 publications

References 2 publications

Zeal of the convert? Comparing religiousness between convert and nonconvert Muslims.

Zeal of the convert? Comparing religiousness between convert and nonconvert Muslims.

Assimilation and Nonassimilation of Asian-Americans and Asian Peruvians

Japanese Settlement in Eastern Bolivia and Brazil

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