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oapen-20.500.12657-893682024-05-30T11:29:25Z Asian American Religions Carnes, Tony Yang, Fenggang Religion and beliefs Cultural studies: customs and traditions thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology 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 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. 2024-04-03T10:10:23Z 2024-04-03T10:10:23Z 2004 book ONIX_20240403_9781479834372_86 9781479834372 9780814716298 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89368 eng Religion, Race, and Ethnicity application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 9781479834372_WEB.pdf 9781479834372_EPUB.epub New York University Press NYU Press 10.18574/nyu/9781479834372.001.0001 10.18574/nyu/9781479834372.001.0001 7d95336a-0494-42b2-ad9c-8456b2e29ddc 9781479834372 9780814716298 NYU Press New York open access
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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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