Book Announcement:

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY IN KOREAN AMERICA
David K. Yoo and Ruth H. Chung, editors
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008)

Religion and Spirituality in Korean America examines the ambivalent
identities of predominantly Protestant Korean Americans in
Judeo-Christian American culture. Focusing largely on the migration of
Koreans to the United States since 1965, this interdisciplinary
collection investigates campus faith groups and adoptees and probes how
factors such as race, the concept of diaspora, and the improvised
creation of sacred spaces shape Korean American religious identity and
experience. In calling attention to important trends in Korean American
spirituality, this volume highlights a high rate of religious
involvement in urban places and participation in a transnational
religious community.

Contributors include Ruth H. Chung, Jae Ran Kim, Jung Ha Kim, Rebecca
Kim, Sharon Kim, Okyun Kwon, Sang Hyun Lee, Anselm Kyongsuk Min, Sharon
A. Suh, Sung Hyun Um, and David K. Yoo.

Professor David K. Yoo is an associate professor of history at Claremont
McKenna College and a core faculty member of the Asian American Studies
Department at The Claremont Colleges. He is the author of Growing Up
Nisei and editor of New Spiritual Homes. His current research focuses on
early Korean American history.

The Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies (IDAAS) was
established in 1998 and currently has a core of thirteen faculty who
teach and research in Asian American Studies. At the heart of its
program, IDAAS offers an array of classes each academic year that
addresses Asian Pacific American issues and populations. The
department’s curriculum in the humanities and social sciences includes
courses in the arts, ethnic studies, history, literature, psychology,
sociology, and a number of interdisciplinary areas of study. For more
information, please visit the website at http://www.idaas.org.