Introducing Asian American Theologies Book

Preface     xi
Introducing Asian America     1
A Snapshot of Asian American Demographics     3
Asian Immigration to the United States     20
Early Chinese Immigration to the United States     20
Early Japanese and Korean Immigration to the United States     28
Twentieth-Century Anti-Asian Hysteria: From Exclusion to Internment     29
Post-World War II Developments     32
Hart-Celler Act (1965)     33
Indochinese Immigration to the United States     34
The Asian American Presence in the Present-Day United States: Contemporary Experiences and Challenges     36
Asian Americans as the "Model Minority"?     37
Asian Americans as the "Middle Minority"?     39
Asian Americans as "Forever Foreigners" or "Honorary Whites"?     41
Asian American Experiences of Racism     45
Shaping Asian American Identities in the Twenty-first-Century United States     49
Understanding Asian American Christianity     57
Emergence of Asian American Christianity     58
Why Asian American Churches?     59
Korean American Christianity     61
Chinese American Christianity     62
Asian American Catholicism     64
Conclusion: The Future of Asian American Churches     74
What Are Asian American Theologies?     77
Asian American Theologies as Contextual Theologies     78
Sources and Goals of Asian American Theological Reflections     80
Asian American Systematic Theologies     82
Theologizing beyond the Asian American World     83
Who Are the Asian American Theologians?     85
The Historical Backdrop of the 1950s and 1960s     86
Emerging Asian American Consciousness     87
The First Generation of Asian American Theologians     90
The Second Generation of Asian American Theologians     99
Asian American Feminist Theologians     102
Asian American Catholic Theologians     105
Asian American Evangelical Theologians     106
Reading the Bible in Asian America     108
The Dilemma of Asian American Biblical Scholars     109
Defining Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics     110
From Historical-Critical Hermeneutics to Contextual Hermeneutics     112
Hermeneutics and the Implications of Diasporic and Postcolonial Experiences     114
Hermeneutics and Identity Constructions     115
Race and Race Relations in Asian American Theologies      121
Understanding Race     121
Asian Americans and the "Race" Problematic     125
Asian Americans as Unassimilable?     127
Continuing Prejudice and Stereotyping     131
Asian American Theological Responses to Racism     133
Theologies of Marginality     134
Theologies of Reconciliation and Healing     138
Asian American Evangelical Theologies: Emerging Trends and Challenges     143
Rapid Growth of Asian American Evangelical Christianity     144
Korean American Evangelicalism     145
Chinese American Evangelicalism     146
Asian American Evangelical Identity Construction     148
"The 'Scandal' of the 'Model Minority' Mind?"     149
Emergence of Asian American Evangelical Theologies     154
Constructing Asian American Evangelical Theologies     157
The Future of Asian American Theologies     162
Toward a Common Asian American Theological Method     164
References     177
Index     201