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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254781603321

Autore

Hearn Mark Chung

Titolo

Religious Experience Among Second Generation Korean Americans / / by Mark Chung Hearn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-59413-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (145 p.)

Collana

Asian Christianity in the Diaspora

Disciplina

201.7089957073

Soggetti

Koreans - United States - Religion

Korean Americans - Religion

Religion and sociology

Spirituality

History of Korea

History of the Americas

Religion and Society

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. Situating Korean Men in Asian America -- 2. Listening to Korean American Men Tell Their Lives -- 3. Sports and Korean American Men -- 4. Korean American Spirituality -- 5. Forming Korean American Men: What Can We Do?. .

Sommario/riassunto

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. .