
Intersecting Realities
Race, Identity, and Culture in the Spiritual-Moral Life of Young Asian Americans
Hak Joon Lee(Editor)
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published on 13. November 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
178 pages
978-1-5326-1623-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
268 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5326-1623-5 (9781532616235)
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Intersecting Realities
Race, Identity, and Culture in the Spiritual-Moral Life of Young Asian Americans
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Hak Joon Lee is the Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary. Lee has published several books, including Shaping Public Theology: The Max L. Stackhouse Reader, The Great World House: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Global Ethics, and We Will Get to the Promised Land: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Communal-Political Spirituality. For over a decade, he has been deeply involved in curriculum projects for pastors and Asian American youths with a view to furthering church renewal and intergenerational bridge-building in a pluralistic society.