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Author Lee, Hak Joon

Title Intersecting Realities : Race, Identity, and Culture in the Spiritual-Moral Life of Young Asian Americans
Published La Vergne : Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (132 pages)
Contents Intro; Title Page; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: God; Chapter 2: Parents; Chapter 3: Friendship and Social Networks; Chapter 4: Money; Chapter 5: Vocation; Chapter 6: Racial Identity; Chapter 7: Sex; Chapter 8: Gender; Chapter 9: Myth of Model Minority; Chapter 10: Community; Bibliography
Summary "Experiencing racial marginalization in society and pressures for success in family, Asian American Christian young adults must negotiate being socially underpowered, culturally dissonant, and politically marginal. To avoid misunderstandings and conflicts within and without their communities, more often than not they hide their true thoughts and emotions and hesitate to engage in authentic conversations outside their very close-knit circle of friends. In addition, these young adults might not find their church or Christian fellowship to be a safe and hospitable place to openly struggle with all of these sorts of questions, all the while lacking adequate vocabulary or resources to organize their thoughts. This book responds to these spiritual-moral struggles of Asian American young people by theologically addressing the issues that most intimately and immediately affect Asian American youths' sense of identity--God, race, family, sex, gender, friendship, money, vocation, the model minority myth, and community-- uniquely and consistently from the contexts of Asian American young adult life. Its goal is to help young Asian Americans develop a healthy, balanced, organic sense of identity grounded in a fresh and deeper understanding of the Christian faith."--Back cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-157) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Asian Americans -- Religious life
Marginality, Social -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity
Asian American theology.
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Systematic.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
Asian American theology
Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity
Asian Americans -- Religious life
Marginality, Social -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Form Electronic book
Author Fong, Ken
ISBN 9781532616242
1532616244