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Synopsis
New Spiritual Homes investigates how religious traditions, movements, and institutions have been vital for Asian Americans, past and present. Through essays, expressive works, and resource materials, it re-frames the religious landscape and brings into view the experiences of Asian Americans. How has religion assisted people in dealing with the upheaval of migration and with other transformations? In what ways has religion been a part of the identity formation of Asian immigrants and their descendants in the United States? How has religion played a role in the formation of Asian diasporas? These questions and many others emerge as the contributors explore the ways individuals and communities have constructed and continue to construct their world-views in light of their religious commitments.
The essays cover an impressive range of topics: Chinese American Protestant nationalism, the development of a Filipino American folk religion, law and religion among American Sikhs, and identity and Taiwanese Buddhism in southern California. Authors seek out what can be discovered at the intersection of religion and gender, race, colonialism, and sexuality. This volume includes an extensive bibliography that will be a vital resource for scholars and students.
Table of Contents
Chinese Protestant nationalism in the United States, 1880-1927 / Timothy Tseng -- Filipino folk spirituality and immigration: from mutual aid to religion / Steffi San Buenaventura -- Sikh Kirpans in California schools: the social construction of symbols, the cultural politics of identity, and the limits of multiculturalism / Vinay Lal -- Journey to the far West: Chinese Buddhism in America / Irene Lin -- The Gospel according to the model minority: hazarding an interpretation of Asian American Evangelical college students / Rudy V. Busto -- Reflections on shamanism / Heinz Insu Fenkl --The labor of compassion: the voices of churched Korean American women / Jung Ha Kim -- Pilgrimage and home in the wilderness of marginality: symbol and context in Asian American theology / Sang Hyun Lee -- Bodhisattva vows / Albert Saijo -- Erasing God / Saleem Peeradina -- San Andreas fault / Meena Alexander -- Once bitten / Allan DeSouza -- Unfolding flowers, matchless flames / Russell C. Leong.