Being Buddhist in a Christian World
Subtitle: Gender and Community in a Korean American Temple (American Ethnic and Cultural Studies (Paperback))
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: January 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780295983790
Subjects: Buddhism - Rituals & Practice; Comparative Religion; Sociology of Religion; Religion - World Religions; Buddhism; California; Korean Americans; Los Angeles; Religious life; Sa Chal (Temple : Koreatown, L; Social aspects; United States; Religion
First sentence: The long historical presence of Korean Americans in the United States began with the first wave, or exodus, from Korea in 1903 to the Hawaiian Islands for work on the sugar plantations.