Sustaining Faith Traditions: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation

Contents

>> vii Contents Acknowledgments ix 1. Introduction: Religious, Racial, and Ethnic Identities of the New Second Generation 1 Russell Jeung, Carolyn Chen, and Jerry Z. Park Part I: Religious Primacy 2. The Diversity-Affirming Latino: Ethnic Options and the Ethnic Transcendent Expression of American Latino Religious Identity 25 Gerardo Marti 3. Islam Is to Catholicism as Teflon Is to Velcro: Religion and Culture among Muslims and Latinas 46 R. Stephen Warner, Elise Martel, and Rhonda E. Dugan 4. Second-Generation Asian Americans and Judaism 69 Helen K. Kim and Noah Leavitt Part II: Racialized Religion 5. Second-Generation Latin@ Faith Institutions and Identity Formations 93 Milagros Peña and Edwin I. Hernández 6. Latinos and Faith-Based Recovery from Gangs 113 Edward Flores Part III: Hybridized Ethnoreligion 7. Racial Insularity and Ethnic Faith: The Emerging Korean American Religious Elite 135 Jerry Z. Park viii << Contents 8. Second-Generation Filipino American Faithful: Are They “Praying and Sending”? 156 Joaquin Jay Gonzalez III 9. Second-Generation Korean American Christians’ Communities: Congregational Hybridity 176 Sharon Kim and Rebecca Y. Kim Part IV: Minority Religions and Family Traditioning 10. Second-Generation Chinese Americans: The Familism of the Nonreligious 197 Russell Jeung 11. “I Would Pay Homage, Not Go All ‘Bling’”: Vietnamese American Youth Reflect on Family and Religious Life 222 Linda Ho Peché 12. Religion in the Lives of Second-Generation Indian American Hindus Khyati Y. Joshi 241 About the Contributors 259 Index 263 ...