Expanding Turf for Racial and Religious Others

Bibliographic Data

ID20052772
AuthorsCorinne G Dempsey (corresponding author)
Year2005
Pages169-190
Publication date2005-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueThe Goddess lives in upstate New York (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressNew York (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/0195187296.003.0009
OpenAlexW2480626223
ISBN9780195187298
LanguageEN
References cited69

This chapter highlights some of the ups and downs of converging ethnicities and religions as experienced by temple participants and Rush community members, and contextualizes this discussion by offering background information on the history of South Asian immigration to North America. It begins by describing childhood encounters with racism and intolerance as related by second-generation South Asian temple members, and includes European American accounts of religious exclusion while in India. Also recounted are temple neighbors’ perceptions of and reactions to a Hindu temple moving next door. The chapter ends with theologies built upon the realities of religious pluralism espoused by Aiya and temple devotees. Aiya’s favorite pluralism story involving a miraculous cure attributed to Padre Pio, a recently canonized Catholic saint, is presented

Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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