Foreword
ix
Roger Daniels
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction
1
David K. Yoo and Ruth H. Chung
Section 1. Traditions
1 Korean American Catholic Communities: A Pastoral Reflection
21
Anselm Kyongsuk Min
2. Asserting Buddhist Selves in a Christian Land: The Maintenance
of Religious Identity among Korean Buddhists in America
40
Okyun Kwon
3. The Religiosity and Socioeconomic Adjustment of Buddhist and
Protestant Korean Americans
60
Okyun Kwon
Section II. Passages
4. Waiting for God: Religion and Korean American
Adoption
83
Jae Ran Kim
5. Liminality and Worship in the Korean American Context
100
Sang Hyun Lee
6. The Restoried Lives: The Everyday Theology of Korean American
Never-Married Women
116
Jung Ha Kim
7. Korean American Religiosity As a Predictor of Marital Commitment
and Satisfaction
137
Ruth H. Chung and Sung Hyun Um
Section III. From Generation to Generation
8. Replanting Sacred Spaces: The Emergence of Second-Generation
Korean American Churches
151
Sharon Kim
9. Second-Generation Korean American Evangelicals on the College
Campus: Constricting Ethnic Boundaries
172
Rebecca Kim
10. A Usable Past? Reflections on Generational Change in Korean
American Protestantism
193
David K. Yoo
Selected Bibliography
217
Contributors
233
Index
235
An introductory analysis of Korean American religious practices and community
David K. Yoo is a professor of Asian American studies and history at UCLA. His books include Contentious Spirits: Religion in Korean American History, 1903-1945 and Growing Up Nisei.Ruth H. Chung is a professor of clinical education, educational psychology, and marriage and family therapy at the University of Southern California.
"Of considerable interest and utlity to students and scholars of
the important, multifaceted role of religion in the lives of
contemporary immigrants in the US. Recommended."--Choice
“This book offers a probing and refreshingly critical lens into
[Korean Americans’] religious world . . . . An excellent
contribution to the growing literature on religion, race, and
ethnicity among new Americans.”--Journal for the Scientific Study
of Religion
“Readily accessible to the general reader, this book provides an
excellent study of post-1965 Korean American religions.”--Religious
Studies Review
"A treat for those exploring the landscape of Korean American
spiritual experience. The book offers religious angles on such
social issues as gender and patriarchy, marriage and singlehood,
family practices, and generational change, as well as such more
usual concerns as theology, worship, and church practice. Yoo and
Chung also highlight dialogue between Protestant, Buddhist, and
Catholic religious perspectives. I particularly like the fact that
they include a reflection by a Korean American transnational
adoptee, a segment of the Korean American community scholars too
frequently overlook. There is much here that will provide food for
thought and that will stimulate both scholars and students of Asian
American religion."--Paul Spickard, author of Is Lighter Better?:
Skin-Tone Discrimination among Asian Americans
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