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"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 of "Religions in Asian America: Building
Faith Communities"
a"Asian American Religion" makes an important sociological
contribution to our understanding of the nature of the interplay
between religious diversity and American culture.a
--Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
"This volume is an important contribution to a much needed
recognition of the role of religion in American social and cultural
life." --"Multicultural Review"
aThis anthology represents the cutting-edge research on Asian
American religions from a social science standpoint.a
--The Journal of Asian Studies.
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.
Rather than organizing the book around particular ethnic groups
or religions, Asian American Religions centers 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.
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