Asian American religions : the making and remaking of borders and boundaries

Asian American religions : the making and remaking of borders and boundaries /

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 demogra...

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Other Authors: Carnes, Tony (Editor), Yang, Fenggang (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, ©2004.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Asian Americans > Religion.
RELIGION > General.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
RELIGION > Essays.
RELIGION > Reference.
Asian Americans > Religion
Religion
United States > Religion.
États-Unis > Religion.
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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