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Examines the dynamic relationship between Christianity and Asian
Americans and gives voice to a community of faith long overlooked.
Probes into particular religious expressions by describing and
analyzing the experiences of Asian American Christians.
A resource ideal for students as well as general readers, this
two-volume encyclopedia examines the diversity of the Asian
American and Pacific Islander spiritual experience. Despite
constituting a fairly small proportion of the U.S.
population-roughly 5 percent-Asian Americans are a widely diverse
group with equally heterogeneous religious beliefs and traditions.
This encyclopedia provides a single source for authoritative
information on the Asian American and Pacific Islander religious
experience, addressing South Asian Americans, such as Indian
Americans and Pakistani Americans; East Asian Americans, including
Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and Korean Americans; and
Southeast Asian Americans, whose ethnicities include Filipino
Americans, Thai Americans, and Vietnamese Americans. Pacific
Islanders include Hawaiians, Samoans, Marshallese, Tongan, and
Chamorro. The coverage includes not only traditional eastern belief
systems and traditions such as Buddhism, Confucianism, and Hinduism
as well as Micronesian and Polynesian religious traditions in the
United States, but also the culture and religious rituals of Asian
American Christians. Covers both common motifs in Asian American
religious culture, such as Chinese New Year festivals and mortuary
rituals, as well as many newly established faith traditions
Contains entries on rarely addressed topics within Asian American
religion, such as Hezhen Shamanism
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