Religion and Spirituality in Korean America (Asian American Experience) Kindle Edition
by David K. Yoo (Editor), Ruth H. Chung (Editor, Contributor), & 10 more Format: Kindle Edition
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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. The authors probe factors such as race, the concept of diaspora, and the ways the improvised creation of sacred spaces shape Korean American religious identity and experience. In calling attention to important trends in Korean American spirituality, the essays highlight a high rate of religious involvement in urban places and participation in a transnational religious community.
Contributors: Ruth H. Chung, Jae Ran Kim, Jung Ha Kim, Rebecca Kim, Sharon Kim, Okyun Kwon, Sang Hyun Lee, Anselm Kyongsuk Min, Sharon A. Suh, Sung Hyun Um, and David K. Yoo
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Contents
Foreword
Roger Daniels
Acknowledgments
Introduction
David K. Yoo and Ruth H. Chung
Section I. Traditions
1 Korean American Catholic Communities: A Pastoral Reflection
Anselm Kyongsuk Mm
2 Asserting Buddhist Selves in a Christian Land: The Maintenance of Religious Identity among Korean Buddhists in America Sharon A. Suh
3 The Religiosity and Socioeconomic Adjustment of Buddhist and Protestant Korean Americans Okyun Kwon
Section H. Passages
4 Waiting for God: Religion and Korean American Adoption
Jae Ran Kim
5 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
7 Korean American Religiosity As a Predictor of Marital Commitment and Satisfaction
Ruth H. Chung and Sung Hyun Urn
Section III. From Generation to Generation
8 Replanting Sacred Spaces: The Emergence of Second-Generation Korean American Churches Sharon Kim
9 Second-Generation Korean American Evangelicals on the College Campus: Constructing Ethnic Boundaries Rebecca Kim
10 A Usable Past? Reflections on Generational Change in Korean American Protestantism
David K. Yoo
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index
