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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... narrative demonstrates a delicate negotiation between the folk reli- gious beliefs of his Hawaiian ancestors and his faith in God as a Mormon . In the face of personal trial , Wallace invokes the powers of both religious sys- tems in a ...
... narrative demonstrates a delicate negotiation between the folk reli- gious beliefs of his Hawaiian ancestors and his faith in God as a Mormon . In the face of personal trial , Wallace invokes the powers of both religious sys- tems in a ...
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... narratives in American religious history . For Asian American scholars Hawai'i too often serves merely as a stage for the struggle between Yankee Puritan plantation owners and the toiling multiethnic proletariat . The geological ...
... narratives in American religious history . For Asian American scholars Hawai'i too often serves merely as a stage for the struggle between Yankee Puritan plantation owners and the toiling multiethnic proletariat . The geological ...
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... narratives of Soen Shaku , his most famous student , D.T. Suzuki , and the establishment of Zen Buddhism in the U.S. , however , are not the ones I recounted here . Rather , my story is a reconstructed Asian American version of the ...
... narratives of Soen Shaku , his most famous student , D.T. Suzuki , and the establishment of Zen Buddhism in the U.S. , however , are not the ones I recounted here . Rather , my story is a reconstructed Asian American version of the ...
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... narratives tend to depict him as merely waiting out the war , completely detached from the turmoil and racism of the internment experience and the internal factionalism rife among the Japanese internees.24 In the Buddhism in America ...
... narratives tend to depict him as merely waiting out the war , completely detached from the turmoil and racism of the internment experience and the internal factionalism rife among the Japanese internees.24 In the Buddhism in America ...
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... narration of the devout Mary Paik Lee in Quiet Odyssey ? 30 What lost or gained by including the philosophical writings of Zen , Jodo Shin , Sikh , Hindu , or Japanese American Methodist teachers in America to the canon of Asian ...
... narration of the devout Mary Paik Lee in Quiet Odyssey ? 30 What lost or gained by including the philosophical writings of Zen , Jodo Shin , Sikh , Hindu , or Japanese American Methodist teachers in America to the canon of Asian ...
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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