Jumping across time and space and traversing religious practices, the essays in this forum present glimpses into the diversity and…
Asian American religions: Everywhere, all at once
“Asian American religions: Everywhere, all at once,” co-curated by Carolyn Chen (UC Berkeley), Tammy C. Ho (UC Riverside), and Jane Iwamura (University of the West) of the Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative (APARRI) as well as Mona Oraby (TIF editor and Howard University) who also edited the forum, expands the scope of religious studies in the United States to include practices and histories at the margins of current scholarship on race and religion. Though Asian Americans are the most rapidly growing demographic in the United States, they remain understudied in part because of their illegibility within the US racial binary. Inviting readers “to the multiverse of religious experiences in Asian America,” the forum presents “case studies of how critical analyses of Asian American religions challenge categorical, epistemological borders,” as Chen and Ho describe. In “Everything, all at once,” contributors lead readers through the lived experiences of Asian Americans and what these experiences reveal about the religio-racial fabric of the United States.
Who (or what) is an Asian American evangelical?
To be an Asian American evangelical or to write about them as a scholar means to battle for legibility. Similar…
What is your religion?: Hmong Americans and the category of religion
For many Hmong refugees, it was a difficult question to answer. Hmong people historically had not organized their lives around…
Everything Everywhere All at Once as religious experience
If one aspect of religiosity in America is the belief in America, then scholars of religion would do well to…
Refashioning the frames of American religion research
Centering the study of American religion with a focus on Asian Americans would complicate a number of well-worn framings with…
Interrogating caste privilege from within
Through religion, caste engages with ideas rooted in race as well as class and gender to disempower in ways that…
Between Mother India and Jim Crow: Yoga in the United States during the interwar decades
The conventional wisdom of scholars over the last several decades has held that yoga became popular in America after the…
US Indo-Caribbeans becoming visible through Hinduism
The unique history of Indo-Caribbean migration to the United States allows us to rethink who counts as Asian American and…
Asian American Buddhists: To heathenry and beyond
As a demographic that continues to be marked with the scarlet letter of heathenry, Asian American Buddhists demonstrate the nuanced…
Telling a story of death and its disclosures
When shared in the frame of solidarity, our stories reveal the matrices of power that require unmaking; they also provide…