Envisioning Religion, Race, and Asian Americans
Acknowledgments: Introduction — David K. Yoo and Khyati Y. Joshi
In Envisioning Religion, Race, and Asian Americans, David K. Yoo and Khyati Y. Joshi assemble a wide-ranging and important collection of essays documenting the intersections of race and religion and Asian American communities — a combination so often missing both in the scholarly literature and in public discourse. Issues of religion and race/ethnicity undergird current national debates around immigration, racial profiling, and democratic freedoms, but these issues, as the contributors document, are longstanding ones in the United States.
The essays feature dimensions of traditions such as Islam, Hinduism, and Sikhism, as well as how religion engages with topics that include religious affiliation (or lack thereof), the legacy of the Vietnam War, and popular culture. The contributors also address the role of survey data, pedagogy, methodology, and literature that is richly complementary and necessary for understanding the scope and range of the subject of Asian American religions. These essays attest to the vibrancy and diversity of Asian American religions, while at the same time situating these conversations in a scholarly lineage and discourse.
This collection will certainly serve as an invaluable resource for scholars, students, and general readers with interests in Asian American religions, ethnic and Asian American studies, religious studies, American studies, and related fields that focus on immigration and race.
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- 2020
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About the Book
Race and religion have always shaped Asian American life together — scholarship is just catching up.
Acknowledgments
Introduction — David K. Yoo and Khyati Y. Joshi
Table of Contents
Chapters
Part I: Reflections of the Past and Present
01
Reconstructing Asian America's Religious Past: A Historiography — Helen Jin Kim
02
Asian American Religious Beliefs Reconsidered — Jerry Z. Park
Part II: Glimpses of Religion and Empire
03
Outsider Citizens within the US Empire: Muslim Youth, Race, Religion, and Identity — Arshad Imtiaz Ali
04
American Apartheid for the New Millennium: The Racialization and Repression of Asian American Religious Minorities — Jaideep Singh
05
Where the History Books End: Religion and Vietnamese America in the Afterlife of the Vietnam War — Mimi Khúc
Part III: Revealing Religious Formations
06
The Gospel According to Rice: The Next Asian American Christianity — Rudy V. Busto
07
(Re)Thinking and (Re)Creating Asian American Christianities through a Gospel According to (Fried) Rice? — Tat-siong Benny Liew
08
Modernity in the Service of Tradition: Women and Gender within Hinduism in the United States — Anjana Narayan and Bandana Purkayastha
09
Life in the Fishbowl: An Asian American Autobiographical Theological Reflection — Joseph Cheah
Part IV: Visualizing Subjectivities
10
Learning Hindu Religion through Comics and Popular Culture — Sailaja Krishnamurti
11
Queer Asian American Theologies — Patrick S. Cheng
12
The Roots of Chinese American Religious Nones: Continuities with the Liyi Tradition — Seanan Fong and Russell Jeung
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Bibliography, Contributors, Index
Praise
What Readers Are Saying
“Envisioning Religion, Race, and Asian Americans brings to the forefront the intersections of race, gender, religion, citizenship, surveillance, transnational connections, and continuing constructions of identity among Asian Americans, and theorizes along those lines. It is a remarkable volume that should be required reading in part or in full for courses on Asian Americans, across the various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.”
Zayn Kassam, John Knox McLean · Professor of Religious Studies, Pomona College
“This volume brings much-needed attention to the religious lives of a racial/ethnic demographic—Asian Americans—that is so often ignored. The essays together establish the depth and breadth of the scholarship on Asian American religions, providing a rich snapshot of the wide range of Asian American religious life and the scholarly methods and approaches being used to study it. The editors have assembled a collection that will certainly serve as an invaluable resource for scholars working on Asian American religions.”
Sylvia Chan-Malik · Associate professor, Department of American Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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About the Author
Dr. Khyati Y. Joshi
Dr. Khyati Y. Joshi is a full Professor in the School of Education at Fairleigh Dickinson University and one of America's leading voices on the intersections of race, religion, and immigration. She is the author or editor of seven books and a frequent commentator on MSNBC, CBS, C-Span, BNC, and NDTV. Her work has been quoted in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe.
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