Same-Sex Marriage, Korean Christians, and the Challenge of Democratic Engagement
- Authors
- Yi, Joseph; Phillips, Joe; Sung, Shin-Do
- Issue Date
- Aug-2014
- Publisher
- SPRINGER
- Keywords
- Proposition 8; Same sex marriage; Korean; Asian; Christian; Evangelical; Immigration; Generation
- Citation
- SOCIETY, v.51, no.4, pp.415 - 422
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- Journal Title
- SOCIETY
- Volume
- 51
- Number
- 4
- Start Page
- 415
- End Page
- 422
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/144573
- DOI
- 10.1007/s12115-014-9802-1
- ISSN
- 0147-2011
- Abstract
- The contest over gay rights (e.g., same-sex marriage) dramatizes the clash between increasingly nonwhite ("majority-world"), religious conservatives and mostly white, progressives. It renews longstanding debate about the compatibility of religious conservatism and liberal, pluralistic democracy. A study of one influential group, Korean Christians, shows that the younger, western-educated generation generally combines religious conservatism and political liberalism; they are much more likely to espouse liberal-democratic principles and to participate in the larger, plural society than the older, immigrant generation. However, the polarizing politics of gay rights partly reverses the generational pattern: the historically insular, first generation participate more in mainstream politics, while some western-educated, second-generation Korean Christians become intolerant and isolated from elite-educated circles. Ideological minorities self-segregate themselves in the face of hostile, energized majorities, whether progressives in Korean Christian circles or conservatives in secular, educated ones. Public deliberation on same-sex marriage depends on whether it becomes viewed like the clear-cut issue of interracial marriage or the more ambiguous one of abortion.
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