
Learning to Speak a New Tongue
Imagining a Way that Holds People Together—An Asian American Conversation
- 154 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Learning to Speak a New Tongue
Imagining a Way that Holds People Together—An Asian American Conversation
About this book
Learning to Speak a New Tongue attempts to respond to a timely question facing America today: What holds people together in a fragmented world? The response comes from a religious community that has not been very visible: Asian Americans. The author employs the threefold epistemological scaffold familiar to Asian Americans: (1) translocal value orientation embedded in the experiences of racialization, (2) a heightened sensitivity to pathos arising out of our dissonance with the societal norms and values, and (3) amphibolous spirituality, that is, a co-existence of multiple religious traditions without any resolution of their differences. The angle of vision embedded in this epistemological framework of Asian Americans' lives may well provide a clue to an alternate architectural paradigm in building a new peoplehood and to redefine democratic freedom as the historical paradigm of American peoplehood.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Original Language of American Peoplehood and Its Corruption
- Chapter 2: People On the Way
- Chapter 3: The Spirit of Dissonance and Dissent
- Chapter 4: Amphibolous Faith
- Conclusion
- Bibliography