Religions in Asian America Building Faith Communities

by Min, Pyong Gap; Kim, Jung Ha

• ISBN13: 9780759100824
• ISBN10: 0759100829
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-20
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(14)
Pyong Gap Min
A Literature Review with a Focus on Major Themes	15	(22)
Pyong Gap Min
Rebuilding Spiritual Lives in the New Land: Religious Practices among Southeast Asian Refugees in the United States	37	(34)
Min Zhou
Carl L. Bankston III
Rebecca Y. Kim
Religious Diversity among the Chinese in America	71	(28)
Fenggang Yang
``We Are Better Hindus Here'': Religion and Ethnicity among Indian Americans	99	(22)
Prema Kurien
A Religious History of Japanese Americans in California	121	(22)
David Yoo
Filipino Religion at Home and Abroad: Historical Roots and Immigrant Transformations	143	(42)
Steffi San Buenaventura
Cartography of Korean American Protestant Faith Communities in the United States	185	(30)
Jung Ha Kim
Asian American Pan-Ethnic Formation and Congregational Culture	215	(30)
Russell Jeung
Bibliography	245	(18)
Name Index	263	(6)
Subject Index	269	(4)
About the Editors and Contributors	273