Revealing the Sacred in Asian and Pacific America

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Jane Iwamura, Paul Spickard
Routledge, Oct 11, 2013 - Religion - 384 pages
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.
 

Contents

Envisioning Asian and Pacific American Religions
1
ORIENTATION
8
SPIRIT
28
CONTEXT
66
PRACTICE
125
IDENTITY
158
REFLECTION
192
COMMUNITY
208
LEGACY
240
TEXTS
290
DIRECTION
326
Contributors
341
Index
347
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Jane Iwamura is Assistant Professor of Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Paul Spickard is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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