Despite scholarly work examining mothers’ roles in nation-building, few studies have investigated how religion plays a role in the process. Comparing two groups of evangelical Protestant mothers, namely, transnational and domestic mothers, this study argues that religion powerfully shapes mothers’ understanding of multiculturalism but only alongside their cosmopolitan experiences. Drawing on in-depth interviews with evangelical mothers originating from Seoul, South Korea, the article examines how mothers perceive multicultural families and children, in comparison with Korean citizens, and investigates the strategies they use in making discursive boundaries to include immigrants. The findings show that transnational mothers have a more inclusive perception of multicultural families and children than domestic mothers, through their use of the interconnected languages of religion and cosmopolitanism. The article claims that an intersectional lens helps us understand mothers’ unique ways of imagining a multicultural Korea, emphasizing their complex positions in families, churches, and global communities. The study contributes to bringing a religious and cosmopolitan focus into the literature on mothers and nation, negating the monolithic media portrayal of religious women as a homogeneous group preserving a total identity in conservative views.

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全球化时代的母亲与国家：福音派新教母亲在韩国多元文化话语建构中的作用

尽管学术工作研究了母亲在国家建设中的作用，但很少有研究调查宗教如何在这个过程中发挥作用。本研究比较了两组福音派新教母亲，即跨国母亲和家庭母亲，认为宗教有力地塑造了母亲对多元文化的理解，但仅与她们的国际化经历一起。本文通过对来自韩国首尔的福音派母亲的深入采访，通过与韩国公民进行比较，研究母亲如何看待多元文化家庭和孩子，并调查他们在制定话语界限以包括移民时使用的策略。研究结果表明，跨国母亲对多元文化家庭和儿童的看法比家庭母亲更具包容性，通过他们使用相互关联的宗教和世界主义语言。文章声称，交叉镜头有助于我们理解母亲想象多元文化韩国的独特方式，强调她们在家庭、教堂和全球社区中的复杂地位。该研究有助于将宗教和世界主义的焦点带入有关母亲和国家的文学作品中，否定媒体将宗教女性描绘成一个在保守观点中保持整体身份的同质群体。