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  2. Mar 22, 2023Taking Asian American spiritual beliefs and practices seriously requires us to rethink the very category of religion outside of the Christian norms of religious exclusivity, congregation, clergy, and creed. Thirty-four percent of Asian Americans claim to have no religious affiliation. Yet this category, along with others, fails to capture the ...
  3. Jun 7, 2023Jane Naomi Iwamura is Chief Academic Officer and Professor of Religious Studies at University of the West. Her books include Virtual Orientalism: Asian Religions and American Popular Culture (Oxford 2011) and the co-edited volume, Revealing the Sacred in Asian and Pacific America (Routledge 2003). She co-founded the Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative (APARRI) in 1999 and ...
  4. May 10, 2023Jerry Z. Park (Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Notre Dame) is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Baylor University. His research interests focus primarily on Asian Americans in the following topics: individual religiosity, minority-dominant religious community effects, pan-ethnic/ racial identity meanings, racial and religious nationalism, generational transmission of religious and ...
  5. May 24, 2023Yet many Hmong Americans, perhaps influenced by multireligious American society, have felt comfortable openly practicing two religions. MayKao Hang, a Hmong American woman in St. Paul, explained in an oral history interview in the 1990s that she practiced both Christianity and the Hmong way. "I believe in the traditional religion as well as ...
  6. Courtney Bender is professor of religion at Columbia University. She is the author of Heaven's Kitchen: Living Religion at God's Love We Deliver (University of Chicago Press, 2003) and The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination (University of Chicago Press, 2010), and a co-editor of volumes focused on religious pluralism, secular-spiritual practices, and the ...
  7. Mar 29, 2023At the same time, Asian American evangelicals converged with the more conservative positions of white evangelicals in their views about same-sex marriage. Fast forward to the most recent election. After the midterm election in 2022, some headlines speculated that Asian Americans were "turning Right." Although there is little evidence that ...
  8. Mar 22, 2023"Asian American religions: Everywhere, all at once," co-curated by Carolyn Chen (UC Berkeley), Tammy C. Ho (UC Riverside), and Jane Iwamura (University of the West) of the Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative (APARRI) as well as Mona Oraby (TIF editor and Howard University) who also edited the forum, expands the scope of religious studies in the United States to include ...
  9. The Immanent Frame

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    "Asian American religions: Everywhere, all at once" invites readers to the multiverse of religious experiences in Asian America. This set of essays, co-curated by The Immanent Frame and the Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative ( APARRI ), offers a glimpse of the vastness and complexity of Asian American religions.
  10. Apr 12, 2023In the prologue of Heathen: Religion and Race in American History, Kathryn Gim Lum critically reflects that as a child, she felt a combined sense of luck and guilt about being born into a Christianized Chinese American family rather than "somewhere in the middle of heathen China, waiting to be rescued from my superstitious ways." Lum's personal experience highlights how the notion of the ...
  11. May 31, 2023In a time of anti-Asian violence and white Christian nationalism, to be an Asian American and a Christian means to belong nowhere. It means to swing wildly between invisibility and hypervisibility every time the mainstream media reports cases of anti-Asian hate or on tragedies like the one that took eleven lives at a Lunar New Year celebration ...
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