| Asian American Religions: The Making and Remaking of Borders and Boundaries Contributor(s): Carnes, Tony (Editor), Yang, Fenggang (Editor) |
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ISBN: 081471630X ISBN-13: 9780814716304 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2004 Annotation: View the Table of Contents .nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; Read the Introduction . "Provides the most comprehensive coverage of Asian Americans' religious practices, cutting across different ethnic groups, religions, topics, and generations. It should be an essential reader for anyone interested in Asian Americans' religious practices." -- Pyong Gap Min, co-editor ofReligions in Asian America: Building Faith Communities "This volume is an important contribution to a much needed recognition of the role of religion in American social and cultural life." -- Multicultural ReviewAsian American Religionsbrings 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 demographic overview of the various Asian populations across the United States. It also provides information on current trends, such as that Filipino and Korean Americans are the most religiously observant people in America, that over 60 percent of Asian Americans who have a religious identification are Christian, and that one-third of Muslims in the United States are Asian Americans. Rather than organizing the book around particular ethnic groups or religions, Asian American Religionscenters on thematic issues, like symbols and rituals, political boundaries, and generation gaps, in order to highlight the role of Asian American religions in negotiating, accepting, redefining, changing, and creating boundaries in the communities' social life. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies - Social Science | Sociology Of Religion - Social Science | Customs & Traditions |
| Dewey: 200.899 |
| LCCN: 2003023815 |
| Series: Religion, Race, and Ethnicity |
| Physical Information: 0.99" H x 6.08" W x 8.92" (1.22 lbs) 399 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 demographic overview of the various Asian populations across the United States. It also provides information on current trends, such as that Filipino and Korean Americans are the most religiously observant people in America, that over 60 percent of Asian Americans who have a religious identification are Christian, and that one-third of Muslims in the United States are Asian Americans. |
Contributor Bio(s): Yang, Fenggang: - Fenggang Yang is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Purdue University. He is the author of Chinese Christians in America.Carnes, Tony: - Tony Carnes directs the Seminar on Contents and Methods in the Social Sciences at Columbia University, the International Research Institute on Values Changes, and the Research Institute for New Americans. He is the coeditor of New York Glory: Religions in the City (NYU Press, 2001). |