Religions in Asian America

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Religions in Asian America

Author	: Pyong Gap Min
File Size	: 43,6 Mb
Publisher	: AltaMira Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 18 December 2001
ISBN	: 9781461647621
Pages	: 292 pages

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Religions in Asian America by Pyong Gap Min Book PDF Summary

Religions in Asian America provides a comprehensive overview of the religious practices of Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian Americans. How these new communities work through issues of gender, race, transnationalism, income disparities and social service, and the passing along an ethnic identity to the next generation make up the common themes that reach across essays about the varying communities.

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