Religion and Spirituality in Korean America
by Yoo, David K.; Chung, Ruth H.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-02-19
Publisher(s): Univ of Illinois Pr
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Summary
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 and probes how factors such as race, the concept of diaspora, and the improvised creation of sacred spaces shape Korean American religious identity and experience. In calling attention to important trends in Korean American spirituality, this volume highlights a high rate of religious involvement in urban places and participation in a transnational religious community. Contributors include 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.
Author Biography
David K. Yoo is an associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College and author of Growing Up Nisei. Ruth H. Chung is an associate professor of clinical education and counseling psychology at the University of Southern California.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Traditions | |
| Korean American Catholic Communities: A Pastoral Reflection | p. 21 |
| Asserting Buddhist Selves in a Christian Land: The Maintenance of Religious Identity among Korean Buddhists in America | p. 40 |
| The Religiosity and Socioeconomic Adjustment of Buddhist and Protestant Korean Americans | p. 60 |
| Passages | |
| Waiting for God: Religion and Korean American Adoption | p. 83 |
| Liminality and Worship in the Korean American Context | p. 100 |
| The Restoried Lives: The Everyday Theology of Korean American Never-Married Women | p. 116 |
| Korean American Religiosity As a Predictor of Marital Commitment and Satisfaction | p. 137 |
| From Generation to Generation | |
| Replanting Sacred Spaces: The Emergence of Second-Generation Korean American Churches | p. 151 |
| Second-Generation Korean American Evangelicals on the College Campus: Constructing Ethnic Boundaries | p. 172 |
| A Usable Past? Reflections on Generational Change in Korean American Protestantism | p. 193 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 217 |
| Contributors | p. 233 |
| Index | p. 235 |
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