Being Buddhist in a Christian World
Subtitle: Gender and Community in a Korean American Temple (American Ethnic and Cultural Studies Series)
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780295983783
Subjects: Christianity; Ethnic studies; Religion; Religion - World Religions; Buddhism - Rituals & Practice; Comparative Religion; Sociology of Religion; Buddhism - General; Buddhism; California; Korean Americans; Los Angeles; Religious life; Sa Chal (Temple : Koreatown, L; Social aspects; United States
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.