Religion and spirituality in Korean America
Publication date 2008
Topics
Korean Americans -- Religion, Korean Americans -- Religious life, Religion, USA, Koreaner Publisher Urbana : University of Illinois Press Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 523.7M
xii, 240 pages ; 23 cm
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Religion and Spirituality in Korean America examines the ambivalent identities of predominantly Protestant Korean Americans in Judeo-Christian American culture. Focusing largely on the migration of Koreans to the United States since 1965, this interdisciplinary collection investigates campus faith groups and adoptees and probes how factors such as race, the concept of diaspora, and the improvised creation of sacred spaces shape Korean American religious identity and experience
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-231) and index
Korean American Catholic communities: a pastoral reflection / Anselm Kyongsuk Min
-- Asserting Buddhist selves in a Christian land: the maintenance of religious identity among Korean buddhists in America / Sharon A. Suh
-- The religiosity and socioeconomic adjustment of Buddhist and Protestant Korean Americans / Okyun Kwon
-- Waiting for God: religion and Korean American adoption / Jae Ran Kim
-- Liminality and worship in the Korean American context / Sang Hyun Lee
-- The restoried lives: the everyday theology of Korean American never-married women / Jung Ha Kim
-- Korean American religiosity as a predictor of marital commitment and satisfaction / Ruth H. Chung and Sung Hyun Um
-- Replanting sacred spaces: the emergence of second-generation Korean American churches / Sharon Kim
-- Second-generation Korean American evangelicals on the college campus: constructing ethnic boundaries / Rebecca Kim
-- A usable past? Reflections on generational change in Korean American Protestantism / David K. Yoo
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Review
"Of considerable interest and utlity to students and scholars of the important, multifaceted role of religion in the lives of contemporary immigrants in the US. Recommended."--Choice
“This book offers a probing and refreshingly critical lens into [Korean Americans’] religious world . . . . An excellent contribution to the growing literature on religion, race, and ethnicity among new Americans.”--Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
“Readily accessible to the general reader, this book provides an excellent study of post-1965 Korean American religions.”--Religious Studies Review
"A treat for those exploring the landscape of Korean American spiritual experience. The book offers religious angles on such social issues as gender and patriarchy, marriage and singlehood, family practices, and generational change, as well as such more usual concerns as theology, worship, and church practice. Yoo and Chung also highlight dialogue between Protestant, Buddhist, and Catholic religious perspectives. I particularly like the fact that they include a reflection by a Korean American transnational adoptee, a segment of the Korean American community scholars too frequently overlook. There is much here that will provide food for thought and that will stimulate both scholars and students of Asian American religion."--Paul Spickard, author of Is Lighter Better?: Skin-Tone Discrimination among Asian Americans
About the Author
David K. Yoo is a professor of Asian American studies and history at UCLA. His books include Contentious Spirits: Religion in Korean American History, 1903-1945 and Growing Up Nisei.
Ruth H. Chung is a professor of clinical education, educational psychology, and marriage and family therapy at the University of Southern California.
Product details
ASIN : B0BMNX61LW
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
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Publication date : 15 August 2022
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