Teaching Asian American Religions and Religiosities: Suggested Resources

Amerasia Journal 22:1 (1996). Special Issue: Racial Spirits: Religion & Race in Asian American Communities.

Adams, Maurianne and Khyati Y. Joshi. “Religious Oppression Curriculum Design.” In Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, edited by Maurianne Adams, Lee Anne Bell, and Pat Griffin, 255–284. New York: Routledge, 2007.

Berling, Judith A. Understanding Other Religious Worlds: A Guide for Interreligious Education. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2004.

Bird, Elizabeth S. and Jonathan P. Godwin. “Film in the Undergraduate Anthropology Classroom: Applying Audience Response Research in Pedagogical Practice.” Anthropology and Education Quarterly 37, no. 3 (2006): 285–299.

Bloom, Benjamin S. Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Handbook I: The Cognitive Domain. New York: David McKay Co, 1956.

Bourdieu, Pierre. Masculine Domination. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001.

Burke, Nancy J and Ofelia O. Villero. “Beyond Coping: Spirituality and Filipina Transnationals with Experience of Breast Cancer.”  In Chronic Illness, Spirituality and Healing: Diverse Disciplinary, Religious, and Cultural Perspectives, edited by Michael J. Stoltzfuz, Rebecca Green, and Darla Schumm. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013.

Carnes, Tony and Fenggang Yang, eds. Asian American Religions: The Making and Remaking of Borders and Boundaries. New York: New York University Press, 2004. 

Champoux, Joseph E. “Film as a Teaching Resource.” Journal of Management Inquiry 8, no. 2 (1999): 206–217.

Cheah, Joseph. Race and Religion in American Buddhism: White Supremacy and Immigrant Adaptation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Chen, Carolyn. Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.

Chu, Hsi, and Daniel K. Gardner. Learning to Be a Sage: Selections from the Conversations of Master Chu, Arranged Topically. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

Connell, R.W. Masculinities. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

De Bary, William Theodore. Confucian Tradition and Global Education. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2007.

Esaki, Brett J. “Multidimensional Silence, Spirituality, and the Japanese American Art of Gardening.” Journal of Asian American Studies 16, no. 3 (October 2013): 235–65.

———. “Japanese American Appropriation of Folkloric Symbols through Origami and Hip Hop.” In Asian American Identities and Practices: Folkloric Expressions in Everyday Life, edited by Jonathan H.X. Lee and Kathy Nadeau. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014.

Fjeldstad, Karen and Thi H. Nguyen, eds. Possessed by the Spirits: Mediumship in Contemporary Vietnamese Communities. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2006.

———. Spirits without Borders: Vietnamese Mediums in a Transnational Age. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Hoskins, Janet. The Divine Eye and the Diaspora: Vietnamese Syncretism Becomes Transpacific Caodaism. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2013.

Huang, Yong. 2010. "Respecting Different Ways of Life: A Daoist Ethics of Virtue in the Zhuangzi." The Journal of Asian Studies 69, no. 04 (2010): 1049-1069.

Iwamura, Jane Naomi. Virtual Orientalism: Asian Religions and American Popular Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Iwamura, Jane Naomi and Paul Spickard, eds. Revealing the Sacred in Asian & Pacific America. New York: Routledge, 2003.  

I Was Born with Two Tongues. Broken Speak. Fist of Sound, Asian Improv Records, 1999. CD.

Kamal, Rabia. “Reimagining Islam: Muslim Cultural Citizenship in the Post-9/11 American Public Sphere.” PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2012. Ann Arbor: ProQuest/UMI.

———. “Youth Movements,” and “Islamic Dress and Fashion,” In The [Oxford] Handbook on American Islam, edited by Yvonne H. Haddad and Jane I. Smith. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Langer, Judith A. Envisioning Knowledge: Building Literacy in the Academic Disciplines. New York, NY: Teachers College Press, 2011.

Lowe, Lisa. Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996. 

Mallinger, Marc and Gerard Rossy. “Film as a Lens for Teaching Culture: Balancing Concepts, Ambiguity, and Paradox.” Journal of Management Education 27, no. 5 (2003): 608–624.

Metz, Johannes Baptist. "The Future in the Memory of Suffering." Concilium 76 (1972).

———. Faith in History and Society: Toward a Practical Fundamental Theology. Translated by J. Matthew Ashley. New York: Crossroad Publishing Company, 2007.

Morrison, Michael A. and Robert E. May. “The Limitations of Classroom Media: Ken Burns’ Civil War Series as a Test Case.” Journal of American Culture 19, no. 3 (1996): 9–49.

Nacos, Brigette L. and Oscar Torres-Reyna. Fueling Our Fears: Stereotyping, Media Coverage, and Public Opinion of Muslim Americans. Toronto: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006.

Ninh, Thien-Huong T. “Colored Faith: Vietnamese American Catholics Struggle for Equality within Their Multicultural Church.” Amerasia Journal 40, no. 1 (2014): 81–96.

Omi, Michael and Howard Winant. Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Phan, Peter C. Christianity with an Asian Face: Asian American Theology in the Making. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2003.

Said, Edward W. Orientalism. New York: Vintage, 1979.

———. Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World. New York: Vintage, 1997.

Singh, Jaideep. “The Racialization of Minoritized Religious Identity: Constructing Sacred Sites at the Intersection of White and Christian Supremacy.” In Revealing the Sacred in Asian and Pacific America, edited by Jane Naomi Iwamura and Paul Spickard, 87–106. Routledge: New York, 2003.

———. "Diasporic Community-Building Enterprises: Race, Religious Identity, and Sikh American Grassroots Political Organzing Before 9/11." PhD diss., University of California, Berkeley, 2008.

———. “A New American Apartheid: Racialized, Religious Minorities in the Post-9/11 Era.” Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory 9, no. 2 (2013a): 115–144.

———. “Memory, Invisibility, and the Oak Creek Gurdwara Massacre: A Sikh American Perspective of the ‘Post-racial’ U.S.,” Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory 9, (no. 2), 2013b.

Silverstein, Paul. "Immigrant Racialization and the New Savage Slot: Race, Migration, and Immigration in the New Europe," Annual Review of Anthropology 34: 363–84.

Thich, Nhá̂t Hạnh. Interbeing: Fourteen Guidelines for Engaged Buddhism. Edited by Fred Eppsteiner Berkeley. California: Parallax Press, 1998.

Wake, Lloyd K. “Reflections on the San Francisco State Strike.” Amerasia Journal 15, no. 1 (1989): 43–47.

Wang, Qingjie James. "The Golden Rule and Interpersonal Care: From a Confucian Perspective." Philosophy East and West 49, no. 4 (1999): 415–438.

Weiler, Kathleen. “Freire and a Feminist Pedagogy of Difference.” Harvard Educational Review 61, no. 4 (1991): 449–474.

Yao, Xinzhong. An Introduction to Confucianism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Yoo, David K. Contentious Spirits: Religion in Korean American History, 1903–1945. Stanford University Press, 2010.

Zhou, Min and Carl Bankston. Straddling Two Social Worlds: The Experience of Vietnamese Refugee Children in the United States. New York: ERIC Clearinghouse, 2000.

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