Asian American Religions The Making and Remaking of Borders and Boundaries

Asian American Religions brings together some of the most current research on Asian American religions from a social science perspective. The volume focuses on religion in Asian American communities in New York, Houston, Los Angeles, and the Silicon Valley/Bay Area, and it includes a current demogra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Carnes, Tony, editor (editor), Yang, Fenggang, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press [2004]
Colección:Religion, Race, and Ethnicity ; 21
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009809029606719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • The Religious Demography of Asian American Boundary Crossing
  • 1 Liminal Youth among Fuzhou Chinese Undocumented Workers
  • 2 The Creation of Urban Niche Religion
  • 3 Paradoxes of Media-Reflected Religiosity among Hindu Indians
  • 4 Global Hinduism in Gotham
  • 5 Negotiation of Ethnic and Religious Boundaries by Asian American Campus Evangelicals
  • 6 Christian by Birth or Rebirth?
  • 7 “Korean American Evangelical”
  • 8 Gender and Generation in a Chinese Christian Church
  • 9 Faith, Values, and Fears of New York City Chinatown Seniors
  • 10 Religious Diversity and Social Integration among Asian Americans in Houston
  • 11 Religion and Political Adaptation among Asian Americans
  • 12 Creating an Asian American Christian Subculture
  • 13 Sasana Sakon and the New Asian American
  • 14 We Do Not Bowl Alone
  • Bibliography
  • About the Contributors
  • Index