Asian and Pacific Islander Americans constitute the fastest-growing racial group in the United States. They are also one of the most religiously diverse. Through them Asian traditions such as Hinduism, Sikhism, Confucianism, and Buddhism have been introduced into every major city and across a wide swath of Middle America. The contributors to this volume provide an essential inter-disciplinary resource for the study of Asian and Pacific Islander American religion.

Jane Iwamura is Assistant Professor of Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Paul Spickard is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Acknowledgments Envisioning Asian and Pacific American Religions: Jane Naomi Iwamura Orientation DisOrienting Subjects: Reclaiming Pacific Islander/Asian American Religions: Rudiger V. Busto Spirit Protecting the Sacred Ipu: Connecting the Sacred in Being Hawaiian-Christian in Hawai'i--A Personal Journey: William Kauaiwiulaokalani Wallace III Compassion Among Aging Nisei Japanese Americans: Peter Yuichi Clark Context Cultivating Acceptance by Cultivating Merit: The Public Engagement of a Chinese Buddhist Temple in American Society: Carolyn Chen The Racialization of Minoritized Religious Identity: Constructing Sacred Sites at the Intersection of White and Christian Supremacy: Jaideep Singh Race, Religion, and Colonialism in the Mormon Pacific: Paul Spickard Practice Immigrants' Religion and Ethnicity: A Comparison of Korean Christian and Indian Hindu Immigrants: Pyong Gap Min Creating the Sacred: Altars in the Hindu American Home: Shampa Mazumdar and Sanjoy Mazumdar Identity The Cross and the Lotus: Changing Religious Practices Among Cambodian Immigrants in Seattle: Thomas J. Douglas To Be Buddhist is to be Korean: The Rhetorical Use of Authenticity and the Homeland in the Construction of Post-Immigration Identities: Sharon A. Suh Reflection Staking a Claim on American-ness: Hindu Temples in the United States: Himanee Gupta Community Why Can't They Just Get Along? An Analysis of Schisms in an Indian Immigrant Church: Sheba George New Asian American Churches and Symbolic Racial Identity: Russell Jeung Legacy Trans-Pacific Transpositions: Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese North American Protestantism Since 1965: Timothy Tseng Tule Lake Pilgrimage: Dissonant Memories, Sacred Journey: Joanne Doi Texts Public Voice, Identity Politics, and Religion: Japanese American Commemorative Spiritual Autobiography of the 1970s: Madeline Duntley Witnessing Religion in Mary Paik Lee's Quiet Odyssey: Sandra Oh Direction Enchanting Diasporas, Asian Americans, and the Passionate Attachment of Race: David Kyuman Kim Contributors Index