Revealing the Sacred in Asian and Pacific AmericaJane Iwamura, Paul Spickard Asian and Pacific Islander Americans constitute the fastest-growing racial group in the United States. They are also one of the most religiously diverse. Through them Asian traditions such as Hinduism, Sikhism, Confucianism, and Buddhism have been introduced into every major city and across a wide swath of Middle America. The contributors to this volume provide an essential inter-disciplinary resource for the study of Asian and Pacific Islander American religion. |
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... California and the University of California , Santa Barbara , for supporting our work as well as providing congenial environments for scholarly and spir- itual reflection . We are also indebted to the sharp and insightful minds of our ...
... California and the University of California , Santa Barbara , for supporting our work as well as providing congenial environments for scholarly and spir- itual reflection . We are also indebted to the sharp and insightful minds of our ...
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... California ? Indeed , it seems difficult to make coherent sense of these various ways of life that — on the surface - seem to have little in common . Scholars in the field of Asian and Pacific American religious studies have proceeded ...
... California ? Indeed , it seems difficult to make coherent sense of these various ways of life that — on the surface - seem to have little in common . Scholars in the field of Asian and Pacific American religious studies have proceeded ...
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... California — serves to bridge spirit and context . It demonstrates the ways in which the institution's spiritual mission — its " transhistorical , transracial , indeed , universal ideals about the way that the world ought to be " -is ...
... California — serves to bridge spirit and context . It demonstrates the ways in which the institution's spiritual mission — its " transhistorical , transracial , indeed , universal ideals about the way that the world ought to be " -is ...
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... California has meant , unfortunately , that in the formula : Asian American / Pacific Islander , " Pacific Islander " usu- ally means the history of nonnatives in that virgin space between Asia and North America rather than Native ...
... California has meant , unfortunately , that in the formula : Asian American / Pacific Islander , " Pacific Islander " usu- ally means the history of nonnatives in that virgin space between Asia and North America rather than Native ...
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... California Avenue cemetery where it then became the object of veneration . McAllister offers another pos- sible origin for the stone , quoting an earlier opinion that the stone originally served as a milestone marker “ at the side of ...
... California Avenue cemetery where it then became the object of veneration . McAllister offers another pos- sible origin for the stone , quoting an earlier opinion that the stone originally served as a milestone marker “ at the side of ...
Contents
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Compassion Among Aging Nisei Japanese Americans | 43 |
The Public | 67 |
Constructing | 87 |
Race Religion and Colonialism in the Mormon Pacific | 107 |
PRACTICE | 114 |
Hindu Temples | 193 |
Why Cant They Just Get Along? An Analysis of Schisms in | 209 |
New Asian American Churches and Symbolic Racial Identity | 225 |
Continuities and Discontinuities | 241 |
Dissonant Memories Sacred Journey | 273 |
vii | 286 |
Japanese American | 291 |
Witnessing Religion in Mary Paik Lees Quiet Odyssey | 309 |
A Comparison of Korean | 125 |
Altars in the Hindu American Home | 143 |
Changing Religious Practices Among | 159 |
The Rhetorical Use | 177 |
Enchanting Diasporas Asian Americans and the Passionate | 327 |
Contributors | 341 |
Index | 347 |
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