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Religions in Asian America: Building Faith Communities.(Book Review)

Journal of Church and State

| January 01, 2003 | Chan, Chung-Yan Joyce | COPYRIGHT 1999 J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Edited by Pyong Gap Min and Jung Ha Kim. Walnut Creek, Calif.: Altamira Press, 2002. 275 pp. $24.95.

Religions in Asian America: Building Faith Communities consists of a collection of essays that investigate the interrelationships between Asian American ethnic, cultural, and religious identity. The editors, Pyong Gap Min and Jung Ha Kim, sociology professors at Queens College, City University of New York, and Georgia State University, respectively, have included a comprehensive selection of Asian religious communities including Chinese-, Indian-, Japanese-, Filipino-, Korean-, and Southeast Asian-Americans, in a single volume work. Each essay presents both cutting …

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