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Bibliography
Primary Sources
Asian American Fiction Engaging Religion
Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung. Dictee. University of California Press, 2009.
Kang, Younghill. East Goes West. 1937.
Kim, Richard. The Martyred. 1964.
Lee, Chang-Rae. The Surrendered. Riverhead, 2010.
Lee, Min Jin. Pachinko. Grand Central Publishing, 2017.
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Park, Sylvia. Luminous. Simon & Schuster, 2025.
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Poetry
De la Paz, Oliver. Requiem for the Orchard. University of Akron Press, 2010.
Herrick, Lee and Leah Silvieus, editors. The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit. Orison Books, 2020.
Khana, Vandana. Burning Like Her Own Planet. Alice James Books, 2023.
Leigh, Eugenia. Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows. Four Way Books, 2014.
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Rothenberg, Jerome, editor. Technicians of the Sacred: a Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. University of California Press,1985.
Shah, Purvi. Miracle Marks. Curbstone Books, 2019.
Secondary Sources
Blackburn, Di Gan. Christianity in Contemporary Asian American Literature: (Mis)-Translations of the Word. 2004. Baylor University, PhD dissertation.
Iwamura, Jane Naomi. Virtual Orientalism: Asian Religions and American Popular Culture. Oxford University Press, 2011.
Kato, Julius-Kei. Religious Language and Asian American Hybridity. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
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Biblical Hermeneutics and Biblical Scholarship
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Theology, including Autobiographical Theology
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Kwak, Pui-Lan, editor. Asian and Asian American Women in Theology and Religion: Embodying Knowledge. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Phan, Peter C., editor. Journeys at the Margin: Towards an Autobiographical Theology in Asian-American Perspective. Liturgical Press.
Phan, Peter C. Christianity with an Asian Face: Asian American Theology in the Making. Orbis, 2003.
Matsuoka, Fumitaka and Fernandez, Eleazar S. Realizing the America of Our Hearts: Theological Voices of Asian Americans. Chalice Press, 2003.
Brock, Rita Nakashima and Kwok, Pui-lan, editors. Off the Menu: Asia and Asian North American Women’s Religion and Theology. Westminster John Knox Press, 2007.
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Studies in Religion among Asian Americans
Carnes, Tony and Yang, Fenggang. Asian American Religions: the Making and Remaking of Borders and Boundaries. New York University Press, 2004.
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Iwamura, Jane Naomi and Spickard, Paul R, editors. Revealing the Sacred in Asian and Pacific America. Routledge, 2003.
Lee, Jonathan H.X. et al., editors. Asian American Religious Cultures. 2 vols. ABC-CLIO, 2015.
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Tseng, Timothy and Nakka-Cammauf, Viji, editors. An Asian American Christianity Reader. Castro Valley, CA: Institute for the Study of Asian American Christianity, 2009.
Tweed, Thomas A. and Prothero, Stephen R., editors. Asian Religions in America: a Documentary History. Oxford University Press, 1999.
Williams, Raymond Brady. Christian Pluralism in the United States: the Indian Immigrant Experience. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Yoo, David, editor. New Spiritual Homes: Religion and Asian Americans. University of Hawai’i Press, 1999.
Yoo, David K. and Joshi, Khyati Y., editors. Envisioning Religion, Race, and Asian Americans. University of Hawaii Press, 2020.
Online Resources:
Lee, Jonathan H.X. “Teaching Asian American Religions and Religiosities: Guest Editor’s Introduction.” Religious Studies News, American Academy of Religion, 2014,
Contributors:
Kathy Chow, Yale University
Tat-siong Benny Lew, College of the Holy Cross
Lucas Emile Kwong, City University of New York
Sharon Kim, Taylor University
Mihee Kim-Kort, Indiana University
JanJan Lin, Yale University
Leah Silvieus, Independent Scholar
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