Asian American Religions: The Making and Remaking of Borders and BoundariesTony Carnes, Fenggang Yang NYU Press, 2004 - 399 pages Asian American Religions brings together some of the most current research on Asian American religions from a social science perspective. The volume focuses on religion in Asian American communities in New York, Houston, Los Angeles, and the Silicon Valley/Bay Area, and it includes a current demographic overview of the various Asian populations across the United States. It also provides information on current trends, such as that Filipino and Korean Americans are the most religiously observant people in America, that over 60 percent of Asian Americans who have a religious identification are Christian, and that one-third of Muslims in the United States are Asian Americans. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Religious Demography of Asian American Boundary Crossing | 38 |
Part I Symbols and Rituals | 53 |
1 Liminal Youth among Fuzhou Chinese Undocumented Workers | 55 |
South Asian Taxi Drivers in New York City | 76 |
3 Paradoxes of MediaReflected Religiosity among Hindu Indians | 98 |
4 Global Hinduism in Gotham | 112 |
Events Generation and Age | 139 |
9 Faith Values and Fears of New York City Chinatown Seniors | 223 |
Part III Political Boundaries | 245 |
10 Religious Diversity and Social Integration among Asian Americans in Houston | 247 |
An Empirical Assessment from the Pilot National Asian American Political Survey | 263 |
Part IV Transcending Borders and Boundaries | 285 |
Grace Community Covenant Church | 287 |
Intermarriage and Identity at a Thai Buddhist Temple in Silicon Valley | 313 |
Social and Cultural Capital from Filipinos and Their Churches | 338 |
5 Negotiation of Ethnic and Religious Boundaries by Asian American Campus Evangelicals | 141 |
6 Christian by Birth or Rebirth? Generation and Difference in an Indian American Christian Church | 160 |
A Resolution of Sociological Ambivalence among Korean American College Students | 182 |
8 Gender and Generation in a Chinese Christian Church | 205 |
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About the Contributors | 395 |
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