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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... Christian conversion in New England inspired Protestant missionary work in the Pacific , religion among Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United states has been of secondary interest in American religion and in the study of Asian ...
... Christian conversion in New England inspired Protestant missionary work in the Pacific , religion among Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United states has been of secondary interest in American religion and in the study of Asian ...
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... religious lives — that is somehow disorienting ( disappointing ? ) and reveals the challenge and unexpected rewards of reclaiming Asian American and Pacific Islander religious history . For unlike the Protestant conversion of Henry ...
... religious lives — that is somehow disorienting ( disappointing ? ) and reveals the challenge and unexpected rewards of reclaiming Asian American and Pacific Islander religious history . For unlike the Protestant conversion of Henry ...
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... Asian American religions and sug- gests how and why they cannot be contained or informed solely by either of the uncomfortably conjoined disciplines of religious / Asian American stud- ies . The Courier recommended “ separation of the ...
... Asian American religions and sug- gests how and why they cannot be contained or informed solely by either of the uncomfortably conjoined disciplines of religious / Asian American stud- ies . The Courier recommended “ separation of the ...
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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 |
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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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