Religious Experience Among Second Generation Korean Americans (eBook)

Mark Chung Hearn (Autor)

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2016
139 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-59413-6 (ISBN)

Infos

 This book explores the ways through which Korean American men demonstrate and navigate their manhood within a US context that has historically sorted them into several limiting, often emasculating, stereotypes. In the US, Korean men tend to be viewed as passive, non-athletic, and asexual (or hypersexual). They are often burdened with very specific expectations that run counter to traditional tropes of US masculinity.  According to the normative script of masculinity, a 'man' is rugged, individualistic, and powerful-the antithesis of the US social construction of Asian American men. In an interdisciplinary fashion, this book probes the lives of Korean American men through the lenses of religion and sports. Though these and other outlets can serve to empower Korean American men to resist historical scripts that limit their performance of masculinity, they can also become harmful. Mark Chung Hearn utilizes ethnography, participant observation, and interviews conducted with second-generation Korean American men to explore what it means to be an Asian American man today.  

 Mark Chung Hearn is a second-generation Korean American. He is Assistant Clinical Professor of Contextual Education and Ministry and the Director of Contextual Education at Seattle University School of Theology and Ministry, USA. In addition to serving as an educator, he has ministered as a pastor, athletic coach, and church consultant. 

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 This book explores the ways through which Korean American men demonstrate and navigate their manhood within a US context that has historically sorted them into several limiting, often emasculating, stereotypes. In the US, Korean men tend to be viewed as passive, non-athletic, and asexual (or hypersexual). They are often burdened with very specific expectations that run counter to traditional tropes of US masculinity.  According to the normative script of masculinity, a "e;man"e; is rugged, individualistic, and powerful-the antithesis of the US social construction of Asian American men. In an interdisciplinary fashion, this book probes the lives of Korean American men through the lenses of religion and sports. Though these and other outlets can serve to empower Korean American men to resist historical scripts that limit their performance of masculinity, they can also become harmful. Mark Chung Hearn utilizes ethnography, participant observation, and interviews conducted with second-generation Korean American men to explore what it means to be an Asian American man today.

Inhalt

Introduction1. Situating Korean Men in Asian America2. Listening to Korean American Men Tell Their Lives3. Sports and Korean American Men4. Korean American Spirituality5. Forming Korean American Men: What Can We Do?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.5.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Asian Christianity in the Diaspora
• Reihe/Serie: Asian Christianity in the Diaspora
• Zusatzinfo: XI, 139 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: America • Asian American • Christianity • Church • Critical race • evangelicalism • Experience • Gender • Korea • Korean American • Korean American Christianity • manhood • Masculinity • Religion and Society • religious experience • Spirituality • Sports
• ISBN-10: 1-137-59413-6 / 1137594136
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-59413-6 / 9781137594136