Asian American religions : the making and remaking of borders and boundaries
Tony Carnes (Editor), Fenggang Yang (Editor)
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. Rather than organizing the book around particular ethnic groups or religions, Asian American Religions centers on thematic issues, like symbols and rituals, political boundaries, and generation gaps, in order to highlight the role of Asian American religions in negotiating, accepting, redefining, changing, and creating boundaries in the communities' social life
1 online resource (ix, 399 pages)
9781479834372, 9780814716304, 1479834378, 081471630X
794701045
Part I: symbols and rituals
Liminal youth among Fuzhou undocumented immigrants / Kenneth Guest
The creation of urban niche religion : South Asian taxi drivers in New York City / Delta Smith and Courtney Bender
Paradoxes of media-reflected religiosity among Hindu Indians / Ashakant Nimbark
Global Hinduism in Gotham / John Hawley
Part II: the boundaries of time and generation
Negotiation of ethnic and religious boundaries by Asian American campus evangelicals / Rebecca Kim
Birth or rebirth? : a generational debate in an Asian Indian American church / Prema Kurien
"Korean American evangelical" a resolution of ambivalence among Korean American college students / Soyoung Park
Gender and generation in a Chinese church / Fenggang Yang
Faith, values and fears of NYC Chinatown seniors / Tony Carnes
Part III: political boundaries
Asian American religion and politics in Houston, Texas / Steve Klineberg
Religion and political adaptation among Asian Americans : an empirical assessment from the pilot national Asian American political survey / Pei-te Lien
Part IV: transcending borders and boundaries
Pan-Asian Christianity in a Silicon Valley church / Russell Jeung
Sasana Sakon and the new Asian American : intermarriage and identity at a Thai Buddhist temple in Silicon Valley / Todd Perreira
We do not bowl alone : social and cultural capital from Filipinos and their churches / Joaquin Gonzalez III and Andrea Maison
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