Contentious Spirits: Religion in Korean American History, 1903-1945 (Asian America)

by David Yoo

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Contentious Spirits explores the role of religion in Korean American history during the first half of the twentieth century in Hawai'i and California. Historian David K. Yoo argues that religion is the most important aspect of this group's experience because its structures and sensibilities address the full range of human experience.

Framing the book are three relational themes: religion & race, migration & exile, and colonialism & independence. In an engaging narrative, Yoo documents the ways in which religion shaped the racialization of Korean in the United States, shows how religion fueled the transnational migration of Korean Americans...

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  • ISBN10 0804771367
  • ISBN13 9780804771368
  • Publish Date 31 March 2010
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Stanford University Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 232
  • Language English