Religions in Asian America

Building Faith Communities
Herausgeber: Min, Pyong Gap; Kim, Jung Ha

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780759100831
• ISBN-10: 0759100837
• Artikelnr.: 22194586

Autorenporträt

Edited by Pyong Gap Min and Jung Ha Kim

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Theoretical Frameworks: Ethnicity, Social
Services, Race, Gender, Generation, and Transnational Ties Chapter 3
Religious Diversity among the Chinese in America Chapter 4 Filipino
Religion and Spirituality: Traditional Roots and Immigrant Transformations
Chapter 5 "We Are Better Hindu Here": Religion and Ethnicity among Indian
Americans Chapter 6 Cartography of Korean American Protestant Faith
Communities in the U.S. Chapter 7 Religious History of Japanese Americans
in California Chapter 8 Rebuilding Spiritual Lives in the New Land:
Religious Practices among Southeast Asian Refugees in the United States
Chapter 9 Asian-American Pan-Ethnic Formation and Congregational Culture by
Russel Cheung