Examines the dynamic relationship between Christianity and Asian Americans and gives voice to a community of faith long overlooked. Probes into particular religious expressions by describing and analyzing the experiences of Asian American Christians.
Examines the dynamic relationship between Christianity and Asian Americans and gives voice to a community of faith long overlooked. Probes into partic...
The old contrast between "universal" and "local" is now collapsing, but a new paradigm has yet to be defined. The contributors claim that the questions they raise will help redraw the lines of demarcation each in a unique way. Their collaborative result is a re-submission of the century-old question regarding "the essence of Christianity," and the readers will hear answers to this question resounding in polyphonic voices. The book will make a unique contribution to the scholarship by constructing a common forum connecting diasporic Asians and Oceanians who live and work in regions around the...
The old contrast between "universal" and "local" is now collapsing, but a new paradigm has yet to be defined. The contributors claim that the question...
Learning to Speak a New Tongue attempts to respond to a timely question facing America today: What holds people together in a fragmented world? The response comes from a religious community that has not been very visible: Asian Americans. The author employs the threefold epistemological scaffold familiar to Asian Americans: (1) translocal value orientation embedded in the experiences of racialization, (2) a heightened sensitivity to pathos arising out of our dissonance with the societal norms and values, and (3) amphibolous spirituality, that is, a co-existence of multiple religious...
Learning to Speak a New Tongue attempts to respond to a timely question facing America today: What holds people together in a fragmented world? The re...
