Religions in Asian America

Building Faith Communities

By: Jung Ha Kim (Editor), Pyong Gap Min (Editor)

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Paperback | 18 December 2001

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The flux of Asian immigration over the last 35 years has deeply altered the United States'' religious landscape. But neither social scientists nor religious scholars have fully appreciated the impact of these growing communities. And Asian immigrant religious communities are significant to the study of American religion not only because there are more than ten million Asian Americans. Asian American religions differ substantially from models drawn from European religions, pushing for new wider understandings. Religions in Asian America provides a comprehensive overview of the religious practices of Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian Americans. How these new communities work through issues of gender, race, transnationalism, income disparities and social service, and the passing along an ethnic identity to the next generation make up the common themes that reach across essays about the varying communities. The first sociological overview of Asian American religions, Religions in Asian America is necessary reading for those interested in Asians, ethnicity, immigration or religion in the United States.

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This book is one I enthusiastically recommend for two reasons. First, because of our need to understand the relationship between religions and the cultural lives of Asian Americans and, second, because the different ways of preserving ethnicity through religion are understudied.... This work is an important resource on the study of transformations of religious traditions and the integration of religious boundaries. Scholars, teachers, and students are in the debt of these authors for addressing the paucity of research on the religious experiences of Asian immigrants.--Mary Phillips, Harvard University Asia Center "Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review "

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Introduction	p. 1
A Literature Review with a Focus on Major Themes	p. 15
Rebuilding Spiritual Lives in the New Land: Religious Practices among Southeast Asian Refugees in the United States	p. 37
Religious Diversity among the Chinese in America	p. 71
"We Are Better Hindus Here": Religion and Ethnicity among Indian Americans	p. 99
A Religious History of Japanese Americans in California	p. 121
Filipino Religion at Home and Abroad: Historical Roots and Immigrant Transformations	p. 143
Cartography of Korean American Protestant Faith Communities in the United States	p. 185
Asian American Pan-Ethnic Formation and Congregational Culture	p. 215
Bibliography	p. 245
Name Index	p. 263
Subject Index	p. 269
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 273
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