Envisioning religion, race, and Asian Americans / edited by David K. Yoo, Khyati Y. Joshi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yoo, David, editor.

Joshi, Khyati Y., 1970- editor.

Series:

Intersections (Honolulu, Hawaii)

Intersections: Asian and Pacific American transcultural studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Americans--Religion.

Asian Americans.

Asian Americans--Race identity.

United States--Religion--21st century.

United States.

United States--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2020.

Summary:

"The manuscript is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that examine the intertwining of religion and race among Asian American communities within a broad context of the United States. Both religion and race, as social constructs, have in their relation to one another been foundational for the formation of American identities, and for Asian Americas, largely reflected through exclusion and marginalization. Despite growing interest, religion continues to be an understudied, but vital dimension of Asian American experiences, and this volume is concerned about how Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh communities have navigated the post-9/11 period compounded by the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States. Contributors examine the role of popular culture and also draw upon and the extensive data collected by the Pew Research Center for the largest Asian American communities. What emerges are rich, complex, and multi-dimensional explorations of how religion and race have been significant forces in the lives of Asian Americans"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Reconstructing Asian America’s Religious Past

2. Asian American Religious Beliefs Reconsidered

3. Outsider Citizens within the US Empire: Muslim Youth, Race, Religion, and Identity

4. American Apartheid for the New Millennium: The Racialization and Repression of Asian American Religious Minorities

5. Where the History Books End: Religion and Vietnamese America in the Afterlife of the Vietnam War

6. The Gospel According to Rice: The Next Asian American Christianity

7. Postscript: (Re)Thinking and (Re)Creating Asian American Christianities through a Gospel According to (Fried) Rice?

8. Modernity in the Service of Tradition: Women and Gender within Hinduism in the United States

9. Life in the Fishbowl: An Asian American Autobiographical Theological Reflection

10. Learning Hinduism through Comics and Popular Culture

11. Queer Asian American Theologies

12. The Roots of Chinese American Religious Nones: Continuities with the Liyi Tradition

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8248-8419-1

OCLC:

1183955325