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1 online resource (xii, 352 pages) |
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Cover; REVEALING THE SACRED IN ASIAN AND PACIFIC AMERICA; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Envisioning Asian and Pacific American Religions; ORIENTATION; DisOrienting Subjects: Reclaiming Pacific Islander/Asian American Religions; SPIRIT; Protecting the ""Sacred Ipu"": Connecting the Sacred in Being Hawaiian-Christian in Hawai'i, -A Personal Journey; Compassion Among Aging Nisei Japanese Americans; CONTEXT; Cultivating Acceptance by Cultivating Merit: The Public Engagement of a Chinese Buddhist Temple in American Society |
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The Racialization of Minoritized Religious Identity: Constructing Sacred Sites at the Intersection of White and Christian SupremacyRace, Religion, and Colonialism in the Mormon Pacific; PRACTICE; Immigrants' Religion and Ethnicity: A Comparison of Korean Christian and Indian Hindu Immigrants; Creating the Sacred: Altars in the Hindu American Home; IDENTITY; The Cross and the Lotus: Changing Religious Practices Among Cambodian Immigrants in Seattle; ""To Be Buddhist is to be Korean"": The Rhetorical Use of Authenticity and the Homeland in the Construction of Post-Immigration Identities |
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REFLECTIONStaking a Claim on American-ness: Hindu Temples in the United States; COMMUNITY; Why Can't They Just Get Along? An Analysis of Schisms in an Indian Immigrant Church; New Asian American Churches and Symbolic Racial Identity; LEGACY; Trans-Pacific Transpositions: Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese North American Protestantism Since 1965; Tule Lake Pilgrimage: Dissonant Memories, Sacred Journey; TEXTS; Public Voice, Identity Politics, and Religion: Japanese American Commemorative Spiritual Autobiography of the 1970s; Witnessing Religion in Mary Paik Lee's Quiet Odyssey |
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DIRECTIONEnchanting Diasporas, Asian Americans, and the Passionate Attachment of Race; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
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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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Asian Americans -- Religion.
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Pacific Islander Americans -- Religion
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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RELIGION -- Essays.
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RELIGION -- Reference.
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Religion
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Asian Americans -- Religion
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Religion.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140498
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Iwamura, Jane Naomi
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Spickard, Paul R., 1950-
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| ISBN |
9781136712739 |
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1136712739 |
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1315023814 |
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9781315023816 |
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1136712801 |
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9781136712807 |
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