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Article: Faithful Generations: Race and New Asian American Churches.(Book review)
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- Sociology of Religion
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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Faithful Generations: Race and New Asian American Churches, by RUSSELL JEUNG. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005, 216 pp.; $62.00 (cloth), $22.95 (paper).
Russell Jeung's Faithful Generations: Race and New Asian American Churches examines the divergent ways in which Asian American evangelical and mainline Protestant ministers interpret, restructure, and shape racial identity in Pan-Asian or Asian American churches. To be sure, "Faithful Generations is about Asian American panethnic churches, how they develop, and how they organize themselves" (p.xii). For Jeung, Pan-Asian ethnicity or the identity of "Asian American" is a relatively new construct. ...