Religions in Asian America

Pyong Gap Min is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He also serves as director of the Research Center for Korean Community at Queens College.

This collection of articles illustrates how the function and form of Asian religions in the United States is being modified to help ethnic groups adapt to a new environment. It also demonstrates that, over generation, increased assimilation into the general culture and mastery of the English language have changed these Asian immigrants and thereby changed the forms and functions of the religions themselves.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Theoretical Frameworks: Ethnicity, Social Services, Race, Gender, Generation, and Transnational TiesChapter 3 Religious Diversity among the Chinese in AmericaChapter 4 Filipino Religion and Spirituality: Traditional Roots and Immigrant TransformationsChapter 5 "We Are Better Hindu Here": Religion and Ethnicity among Indian AmericansChapter 6 Cartography of Korean American Protestant Faith Communities in the U.S.Chapter 7 Religious History of Japanese Americans in CaliforniaChapter 8 Rebuilding Spiritual Lives in the New Land: Religious Practices among Southeast Asian Refugees in the United StatesChapter 9 Asian-American Pan-Ethnic Formation and Congregational Culture by Russel Cheung