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Korean Americans and their religions : pilgrims and missionaries from a different shore / edited by Ho-Youn Kwon, Kwang Chung Kim, and R. Stephen Warner.

Contributor(s): Kwon, Ho-Youn | Kim, Kwang Chung, 1937- | Warner, R. Stephen
Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Description: 307 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0271020733 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780271020730 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0271020725 (alk. paper); 9780271020723 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Korean Americans -- Religion | Korean Americans -- Ethnic identity | United States -- Church history -- 20th century | United States -- Religion -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 200/.89/957073 LOC classification: BL2525 | .K67 2001Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Korean American religion in international perspective / Kwang Chung Kim, R. Stephen Warner, Ho-Youn Kwon -- The Korean immigrant church as case and model / R. Stephen Warner -- Pilgrimage and home in the wilderness of marginality: symbols and context in Asian American theology / Sang Hyun Lee -- Ethnic roles of Korean immigrant churches in the United States / Kwang Chung Kim Shin Kim -- Religion as a variable in mental health: a case for Korean Americans / Tong-He Koh -- A theological reflection on the cultural tensions between first-century Hebraic and Hellenistic Jewish Christians and between twentieth-century first- and second-generation Korean Americans / Robert D. Goette Mae Pyen Hong -- The transformation of a first-generation church into a bilingual second-generation church / Robert D. Goette -- Ethnic identity formation and participation in immigrant churches: second-generation Korean American experiences / Peter T. Cha -- Beyond "strictness" to distinctiveness: generational transition in Korean Protestant churches / Karen J. Chai -- Being Korean, being Christian: particularism and universalism in a second-generation congregation / Antony W. Alumkal -- The intersection of religion, race, gender and ethnicity in the identity formation of Korean American Evangelical women / Soyoung Park -- The growth of Korean Buddhism in the United States with special reference to Southern California / Eui-Young Yu -- Turning the wheel of Dharma in the West: Korean Sŏn Buddhism in North America / Samu Sunim (Kim, Sam-Woo) -- Won Buddhism in the United States / Bok In Kim -- Intra-ethnic religious diversity: Korean Buddhists and Protestants in greater Boston / Karen J. Chai.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Korean American religion in international perspective / Kwang Chung Kim, R. Stephen Warner, and Ho-Youn Kwon -- The Korean immigrant church as case and model / R. Stephen Warner -- Pilgrimage and home in the wilderness of marginality: symbols and context in Asian American theology / Sang Hyun Lee -- Ethnic roles of Korean immigrant churches in the United States / Kwang Chung Kim and Shin Kim -- Religion as a variable in mental health: a case for Korean Americans / Tong-He Koh -- A theological reflection on the cultural tensions between first-century Hebraic and Hellenistic Jewish Christians and between twentieth-century first- and second-generation Korean Americans / Robert D. Goette and Mae Pyen Hong -- The transformation of a first-generation church into a bilingual second-generation church / Robert D. Goette -- Ethnic identity formation and participation in immigrant churches: second-generation Korean American experiences / Peter T. Cha -- Beyond "strictness" to distinctiveness: generational transition in Korean Protestant churches / Karen J. Chai -- Being Korean, being Christian: particularism and universalism in a second-generation congregation / Antony W. Alumkal -- The intersection of religion, race, gender and ethnicity in the identity formation of Korean American Evangelical women / Soyoung Park -- The growth of Korean Buddhism in the United States with special reference to Southern California / Eui-Young Yu -- Turning the wheel of Dharma in the West: Korean Sŏn Buddhism in North America / Samu Sunim (Kim, Sam-Woo) -- Won Buddhism in the United States / Bok In Kim -- Intra-ethnic religious diversity: Korean Buddhists and Protestants in greater Boston / Karen J. Chai.

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