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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... United States are an either / or proposition.1 Either they are " other " and as such " disciples of the Great Buddha ... United states has been of secondary interest in American religion and in the study of Asian American history.2 ...
... United States are an either / or proposition.1 Either they are " other " and as such " disciples of the Great Buddha ... United states has been of secondary interest in American religion and in the study of Asian American history.2 ...
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... the United States ) . In the biographies of Chang and Eng , it is this last fact — their religious lives — that is somehow disorienting ( disappointing ? ) and reveals the challenge and unexpected rewards of reclaiming Asian American ...
... the United States ) . In the biographies of Chang and Eng , it is this last fact — their religious lives — that is somehow disorienting ( disappointing ? ) and reveals the challenge and unexpected rewards of reclaiming Asian American ...
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... United States and mention of the " birthing stone . ” Narayanan records that an India - based organization , the ... United States , N.S. was among the 4,000 other Japanese immigrants making the long boat journey to California that year ...
... United States and mention of the " birthing stone . ” Narayanan records that an India - based organization , the ... United States , N.S. was among the 4,000 other Japanese immigrants making the long boat journey to California that year ...
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... the United States . Although there is some acknowledgment of Buddhism's arrival in the United States with the Chinese in the 1840s , and with Shinshu Buddhist teachers in the 1870s , most of the academic attention to Buddhism's arrival ...
... the United States . Although there is some acknowledgment of Buddhism's arrival in the United States with the Chinese in the 1840s , and with Shinshu Buddhist teachers in the 1870s , most of the academic attention to Buddhism's arrival ...
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... the United States ( so far as the Zen in America literature claims ) Senzaki remains an important but lesser figure in the American Buddhism story , perhaps because he rejected the traditions of what he called " cathedral Zen " which ...
... the United States ( so far as the Zen in America literature claims ) Senzaki remains an important but lesser figure in the American Buddhism story , perhaps because he rejected the traditions of what he called " cathedral Zen " which ...
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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