Asian American Religions: The Making and Remaking of Borders and Boundaries

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Alagappan, Alagappa, Dr., 115 Alumkal, Anthony, 27 Ambassadors for Christ, Inc., 212 American Council of Christian Churches (ACCC), 208 America Sevashram Sangha, Jamaica, Queens (NY), 121–122 Ancheta, Juan, Rev., 338 Asian American Christian Fellowship (AACF), 186 Autajay, Leonard, Rev., 348 Authority, 216, 293 Baptism, 19, 56–57, 74 Bhakti vidanta swami, 113 Boundaries, 8–11 Buddhism, 12–13, 16, 34, 42, 232–234, 313–334 Buddhists, 4, 20–21, 30, 32, 41–42, 44, 232–234, 238–239, 252–253, 313–334 Calvinists, 4 Campus Crusade for Christ, Yale, 144 Capuli, Arthuro, Rev., 348 Catastrophe, 2–3 Catholic religion, 35 Catholics, 2–4, 30–31, 40–41, 44–45, 48, 269 Chan, Jeffery Paul, 3 Charismatic Catholicism, 7 Chen, Rev., 56 Ch’ing Dynasty, 4 Chinese, 6 Chinese Christian Church, 205–221 Chinese Fellowship Church (CFC), 205, 211–217 Christian Church, 49 Christianity, 68, 7–4, 168–179 Christians, 20–21, 27, 40–42, 45, 48, 50, 68, 70, 73, 143–144, 160, 168–179, 205–221, 233–234 Christian Student Fellowship (CSF), 144, 147–150 Chuenrukchart, Prachirn, monk, 322 Church of Grace to the Fujian People (NYC), 19, 42, 55–75, 227–228, 249–257, 290–292, 313–314, 342–350 Confucianism, 209–211 Confucianists, 4, 209 Conversion, 42–44, 67–68 Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS), 214 Daly City, 35 Dao, 212 Demography of Asian American Religion, 15–18, 38–51, 81, 112–114, 144–145, 164 Divya Dham, Woodside, Queens (NYC), 125–133 Dudley, Carl S., 7 Episcopal Church, 43 Evangelicalism, 207–209 Evangelical Protestantism, 7, 41–43, 141–159, 174, 287–312 Evangelicals, 26, 28 Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs), 6–7, 13–15 Faith Bible Church of San Francisco (FBC), 349 First Chinese Presbyterian Church, 226 Flushing temple, 115 Fremont temple, 332 Friday Jumah services, 2 Fuller Theological Seminary, 208 397 Index Fundamentalism, 207–208, 213–216 Fundamentalist Islam, 7 Ganesh temple (NYC), 2, 114–119 Geeta Temple, 131 Gender, 163, 171, 205–222, 228 Generations, 24–28, 72, 183–184 Gossai, Prakash, 132 Grace Community Covenant Church, Silicon Valley, 3–4, 287–299 Graham, Billy, 208 Guest, Kenneth J., 4 Guyanese Hindu temple, 124 Hannerz, Ulf, 1 Hinduism, 4, 13, 16, 46, 50, 110, 112–123 Hindus, 24–25, 27, 32, 41, 46, 98–130, House Church, The, in Chinatown (NYC), 225 Illegal immigrants, 16, 57–58, 60 Innovation, religious, 96 Intercollegiate Christian Council (ICC), 154–155 InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Stanford (IVCF), 144, 157, 186 Islam, 4, 13, 16, 46, 91, 92 Islamic Center of Greater Houston, 30 Islamic Cultural Center of New York, 91 Korean American Mission for Christ (KAMS), 144–150 Korean Christian Fellowship (KCF), 185–198 Korean Buddhist Bul Kwang Zen Meditation Center, 14 Korean Presbyterian Churches in America (KPCA), 187 Koreatown (Los Angeles), 49 Kwok, Pui-lan, 212 Kwon, Ho-Youn, Kwan Chung Kim, and R. Stephen Warner, 28 Lin, Cheng, 230 Ling Liang Church, 226 Lived religion, 77, 79–80 Mahayana Buddhist Temple, 239 Mar Thoma church, 16–4 Min, Pyong Gap, 289 Multi-Ethnic Fellowship (MEF), 186 Muslims, 2, 4, 14, 20, 22, 24, 27, 29, 31–32, 41–42, 44, 46–47, 76–97, 270 National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), 209 New York: Chinatown, Manhattan, 56–75, 223–242; Corona, Queens, 99; Dutch Kills, Queens, 1; Flushing, Queens, 107, 121; Jackson Heights, 106; Jamaica, Queens, 121 Lower East Side, Manhattan, 58; Upper West Side, Manhattan, 113; Woodside, Queens, 125 Nimbark, 4 Orthodox religion, 4 Overseas Chinese Mission Church, 230 Panethnicity, 289–290 Patel, K. C., 119 Pearson, Thomas, 20–21 Pentecostal church, 2 Persecution, 6 Peters, Dr., 178 Politics, 29–32 Prachirn, Khun, 323 Prayer, 76–97 Presbyterian Churches in the U.S.A. (PCUSA), 187 Protestant church, 14 Protestantism, 77, 233–234 Protestants, 15, 31–32, 40–41, 44–45, 48, 233, 238 Putnam, Robert, 6 Racialization, 83 Redeemer Presbyterian Church, 26, 201 Redfield, Robert, 4 Refugees, 17–18 Religion: conservative, 7–8; definition, 3–7, 39, 76–80; lack of mention, 1, 3 Ritual cleanliness, 82 Robertson, Roland, 4 Ron, Pastor, 147 Roozen, David A., 7 Sacred-secular boundary, 9, 13, 106 Saint Patrick’s Catholic Church, 346, 355–357 398 Index Samkara, 131 San Francisco Bay Area, 34, 338–357 San Francisco Filipino-American SeventhDay Adventist Church, 349–350 Semiotics, 18–22, 56–57, 68–69, 74, 98–137 Sensibility, 33–34 Shi Zhu Shan Xian Buddhist Temple, 227 Sikhism, 16, 121 Sikhs...