Asian American religions : the making and remaking of borders and boundaries /

Asian American religions : the making and remaking of borders and boundaries / edited by Tony Carnes and Fenggang Yang. - 1 online resource (412 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-393) and index.

part I. Symbols and rituals -- Liminal youth among Fuzhou undocumented immigrants / Kenneth Guest -- The creation of urban niche religion : South Asian taxi drivers in New York City / Delta Smith and Courtney Bender -- Paradoxes of media-reflected religiosity among Hindu Indians / Ashakant Nimbark -- Global Hinduism in Gotham / John Hawley -- part II. The boundaries of time and generation -- Negotiation of ethnic and religious boundaries by Asian American campus evangelicals / Rebecca Kim -- Birth or rebirth? : a generational debate in an Asian Indian American church / Prema Kurien -- "Korean American evangelical" a resolution of ambivalence among Korean American college students / Soyoung Park -- Gender and generation in a Chinese church / Fenggang Yang -- Faith, values and fears of NYC Chinatown seniors / Tony Carnes -- part III. Political boundaries -- Asian American religion and politics in Houston, Texas / Steve Klineberg -- Religion and political adaptation among Asian Americans : an empirical assessment from the pilot national Asian American political survey / Pei-te Lien -- part IV. Transcending borders and boundaries -- Pan-Asian Christianity in a Silicon Valley church / Russell Jeung -- Sasana Sakon and the new Asian American : intermarriage and identity at a Thai Buddhist temple in Silicon Valley / Todd Perreira -- We do not bowl alone : social and cultural capital from Filipinos and their churches / Joaquin Gonzalez III and Andrea Maison.

9781479834372 (e-book)


Asian Americans--Religion.


United States--Religion.


Electronic books.

BL2525 / .A84 2004

200/.89/95073