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- ISBN 9780271020730
- Weight: 517g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Mar 2002
- Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Since 1965 the Korean American population has grown to over one million people. These Korean Americans, including immigrants and their offspring, have founded thousands of Christian congregations and scores of Buddhist temples in the United States. In fact, their religious presence is perhaps the most distinctive contribution of Korean Americans to multicultural diversity in the United States. Korean Americans and Their Religions takes the first sustained look at this new component of the American religious mosaic.
The fifteen chapters focus on cultural, racial, gender, and generational factors and are noteworthy for the attention they give to both Christian and Buddhist traditions and to both first– and second-generation experiences. The editors and contributors represent the fields of sociology, psychology, theology, and religious ministry and themselves embody the diversities underlying the Korean American religious experience: they are Korean immigrants who are leaders in their fields and second-generation Korean Americans beginning their careers as well as leaders of both Christian and Buddhist communities. Among them are sympathetically analytical outside observers.
Korean Americans and Their Religions is a welcome addition to the emerging literature in the sociology of "new immigrant" religious communities, and it provides the fullest portrait yet of the Korean religious experience in America.
Ho-Youn Kwon is Executive Director for the Center for Korean Studies and Associate Professor of Sociology at North Park University. Kwang Chung Kim is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Western Illinois University. R. Stephen Warner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
