Asian American Religions The Making and Remaking of Borders and Boundaries

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-0814716298
• ISBN-13: 978-1479834372
• ISBN: nyu/9781479834372.001.0001
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York New York University Press, 2004
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 460404
• Chủ đề: 1. Cultural studies: customs and traditions; 2. Religion and beliefs; 3. thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC6 Cultural studies: customs and traditions; 4. thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology; 5. thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs

Tóm tắt

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.