The Bible in Asian America
By: guest editor, Tat-siong Benny Liew ; board editor, Gale A. Yee
Series: Semeia -- 90/91; Semeia : an experimental journal for biblical criticism -- 90/91.
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Atlanta, GA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Asian Americans; Bible; Acculturatie; Bibel; Criticism, interpretation; Exegese; Religion; Contextuele theologie; Asiaten; Aziaten; Bijbel
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1.; title: Reading the Bible in Asian America.; title: From Babel to Pentecost: finding a home in the belly of the empire  -- Eleazar S. Fernandez; title: Resident aliens of the diaspora: 1 Peter and Chinese Protestants in San Francisco  -- Russell G. Moy; title: Uriah the Hittite: a (con)text of struggle for identity  -- Uriah (Yong-Hwan) Kim; title: Home as memory, metaphor, and promise in Asian/Pacific American religious experience  -- Rachel A.R. Bundang; title: Shifts in reading the Bible: hermeneutical moves among Asian Americans  -- Roy I. Sano; title: Multiplicity and Judges 19: constructing a queer Asian Pacific American biblical hermeneutic  -- Patrick S. Cheng; title: The accidents of being and the politics of identity: biblical images of adoption and Asian adoptees in America  -- Mary F. Foskett; title: My father has no children: reflections on a Hapa identity toward a hermeneutic of particularity -- Henry W. Rietz.; title: pt. 2.; title: Reading readings of the Bible in Asian America.; title: The "hidden manna" that sustains: reading Revelation 2:17 in Joy Kogawa's Obasan  -- Jane Naomi Iwamura; title: America seen through a different lens: the Bible in the works of Yoshiko Uchida  -- Fumitaka Matsuoka; title: Writing new and joyful songs: con-versing with Joy Kogawa  -- Tat-siong Benny Liew; title: Evangelical and mainline teachings on Asian American identity  -- Russell Jeung; title: The scandal of the "model minority" mind? The Bible and second-generation Asian American Evangelicals  -- Antony W. Alumkal; title: Second-generation Chinese evangelical use of the Bible in identity discourse in North America  -- Timothy Tseng; title: Hermeneutics and Asian American preaching  -- Eunjoo Mary Kim; title: Biblical themes for pastoral care revisited: an Asian American rereading of a classic pastoral care text  -- Peter Yuichi Clark; title: "The Bible tells me to hate myself": the crisis in Asian American spiritual leadership  -- Leng Leroy Lim -- pt. 3.; title: Response.; title: At the tables of an Asian American banquet -- Jung Ha Kim.