RELIGIONS
A guide to Asian-Americans and religion

IN THE NORTHEAST
• Diana L. Eck is director of Harvard University’s Pluralism Project, which studies the religious diversity of America. She is an expert on the many religions of India, including Sikhism, and can discuss how Sikhism has taken root in America. Contact 617-495-3295, dianaeck@fas.harvard.edu.
• Lili M. Kim is Henry R. Luce Assistant Professor of History and Global Migrations at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass. Her specialties include Asian-American history. Contact lkim@hampshire.edu.
• Thanh V. Tran is a professor of social work at Boston College whose research has included Chinese immigrants and Vietnamese-Americans. Contact 617-552-2539, vantran@bc.edu.
• Gale A. Yee, professor of Hebrew Bible at Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass., can talk about Asian-Americans and the Bible. Contact gyee@eds.edu.

IN THE EAST
• Elaine Howard Ecklund, an assistant professor of sociology at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, researches changes in American society from immigration and escalating religious, ethnic and racial diversity. She wrote Korean American Evangelicals: New Models for Civic Life. Contact 716-645-2417 ext. 464, ehe@buffalo.edu.
• David L. Eng is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University, and his specialties include Asian-American literature. He wrote Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America and co-edited Q & A: Queer in Asian America. He is on leave during the 2007-08 school year. Contact 732-932-7083, david.eng@rutgers.edu.
• Khyati Joshi, assistant professor of education at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, N.J., wrote New Roots in America’s Sacred Ground: Religion, Race and Ethnicity in Indian America.  Her expertise includes race in the United States, South Asian religions in the United States, and South Asian immigrant and second-generation issues. Contact 201-692-2826, khyati@fdu.edu.
• Sang Hyun Lee, an ordained Presbyterian minister, is Kyung-Chik Han Professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary and directs the program for Asian-American theology and ministry.  Contact 609-799-6133, sang.lee@ptsem.edu.
• Su Yon Pak, vice president for institutional advancement at Union Theological Seminary in New York, is co-chair of the American Academy of Religion’s Asian North American Religion, Culture and Society Group. Contact 212-280-1426, spak@uts.columbia.edu.
• J. Paul Rajashekar is dean and Luther D. Reed Professor of Systematic Theology at Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. Contact Rajashekar@ltsp.edu.
• Mark Lewis Taylor is Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Theology and Culture at Princeton Theological Seminary.  He is on research leave through January 2008. Contact 609-497-7918, mark.taylor@ptsem.edu.

IN THE SOUTHEAST
• Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, who grew up in India, is a religion professor at Emory University in Atlanta whose specialties include Muslim and Hindu popular traditions. Contact 404-727-4642, reljbf@emory.edu.
• Mary Foskett, Zachary T. Smith Associate Professor of Religion at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C., is an Asian adoptee who advises families undertaking cross-racial adoptions of children from Asia. Her books include, as co-editor, Ways of Being, Ways of Reading: Asian American Biblical Interpretation. Contact 336-758-5653, foskettm@wfu.edu.
• Jung Ha Kim, a senior lecturer in the sociology department at Georgia State University, Atlanta, researches Asian-American religion and culture. She co-authored Singing the Lord's Song in a New Land: Korean American Practices of Faith. Contact 404-651-1847, socjhk@langate.gsu.edu.
• Bruce Bennett Lawrence is a religion professor at Duke University in Durham, N.C., whose expertise includes Islam, Hindu-Muslim relations, Asian-Americans and Asian immigrants. His books include, as co-editor, Muslim Networks From Hajj to Hip Hop and, as author, New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life.  Contact 919-660-3506, bbl@duke.edu.
• Amos Yong is a professor of systematic theology at Regent University, Virginia Beach, Va., and his interests include Buddhist-Christian dialogue. Contact 757-226-4412, ayong@regent.edu.

IN THE SOUTH
• Paul Chang-Ha Lim is assistant professor of the history of Christianity at Vanderbilt Divinity School, Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tenn. Contact 615-343-3975, paul.lim@vanderbilt.edu.
• U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal, R-La., who is running in 2007 for Louisiana governor, is the son of Indian immigrants. He grew up Hindu but converted to Catholicism. Contact 202-225-3015, bobby.jindal@mail.house.gov.
• John J. Thatamanil, who emigrated from India to the United States as a child, is assistant professor of theology at Vanderbilt University, Nashville.  He teaches courses on Hindu-Christian dialogue and Buddhist-Christian dialogue, and wrote The Immanent Divine: God, Creation and the Human Predicament -- An East-West Conversation. Read a column he wrote that was published Aug. 26, 2006, by The Washington Post. Contact john.j.thatamanil@vanderbilt.edu.

IN THE MIDWEST
• Eleazar S. Fernandez, who is ordained in the United Church of Christ in the Philippines, is professor of constructive theology at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, New Brighton, Minn. He co-edited Realizing the America of Our Hearts: Theological Voices of Asian Americans. Contact 651-255-6131, efernandez@unitedseminary.edu.
• Andrew Sung Park is professor of theology at United Theological Seminary in Trotwood, Ohio.  His books include Racial Conflict and Healing: An Asian-American Theological Perspective; The Wounded Heart of God: The Asian Concept of Han and the Christian Doctrine of Sin; and From Hurt to Healing: A Theology of the Wounded. Contact aspark@united.edu.
• Jonathan Y. Tan, who was born in Malaysia, is a theology professor at Xavier University, Cincinnati. He teaches courses on Islam, Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. Contact 513-745-3794, ProfessorJTan@gmail.com.
• Frank H. Wu, dean and professor at Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, wrote Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White and co-authored Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment. Contact 202-487-5775, frankhwu@mac.com.

IN THE SOUTHWEST
• W. Anne Joh, assistant professor of theology at Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, Okla., is co-chair of the American Academy of Religion’s Asian North American Religion, Culture and Society Group. Her research includes colonization and postcoloniality, race/racism and religion, gender/sexism/heterosexism and religion, and Asian-American history. Contact 918-610-8303, Anne.Joh@ptstulsa.edu.
• Namsoon Kang, associate professor of world Christianity and religions at Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, researches Asian and Korean feminist theology. Contact 817-257-7137, n.kang@tcu.edu.
• Sze-Kar Wan, who is an Episcopal priest, is a professor of New Testament at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. His research includes neo-Confucianism. Contact 214-768-3553, swan@smu.edu.

IN THE WEST/NORTHWEST
• Rachel A.R. Bundang, a Bannan Fellow and lecturer in religious studies at Santa Clara University, can discuss Filipinas and Asian-American Catholics. Contact 408-554-4035, rbundang@scu.edu.
• Marion S. Grau is assistant professor of theology at Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, Calif. Her interests include how Asian American religious people interact with Western ideas, and Asian American contributions to Christian theology. Contact mgrau@cdsp.edu.
• Russell Jeung is an associate professor of Asian-American studies at San Francisco State University. He wrote Faithful Generations: Race and New Asian American Churches. Contact 415-338-7586, rjeung@sfsu.edu.
• Rebecca Y. Kim is an assistant professor of sociology at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif. Her research includes Korean/Southeast Asian immigrant religious organizations, second-generation Asian-American religious participation and Asian-American intragroup differences. She wrote God's New Whiz Kids?: Korean American Evangelicals on Campus. Contact 310-506-7481, rebecca.y.kim@pepperdine.edu.
• Sharon Kim is an assistant professor of sociology at California State University, Fullerton, and her research includes Asian-Americans and religion, ethnicity, race and immigration. Contact 714-278-7634, sharonkim@fullerton.edu.
• Kah-Jin Jeffrey Kuan, who is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, is associate professor of Old Testament at the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, Calif. His work includes Asian and Asian-American biblical interpretation. Contact 510-849-8205, kjkuan@psr.edu.
• The Rev. Boyung Lee is a United Methodist pastor and assistant professor of educational ministries at the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, Calif. She has served as a parish minister in Korea. Contact 510-849-8234, blee@psr.edu.
• James Kyung-Jin Lee, associate professor of Asian-American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, specializes in Asian-American literature. He wrote Urban Triage: Race and the Fictions of Multiculturalism. Contact 805-893-4387, jkl@asamst.ucsb.edu.
• Russell C. Leong, a writer and poet who teaches Asian-American studies and English at the University of California, Los Angeles, edits Amerasia Journal. Contact 310-206-2892, rleong@ucla.edu.
• Tat-siong Benny Liew, who is ordained in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), is associate professor of New Testament at the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, Calif. His interests include Asian-American history and literature. Contact 510-849-8219, bliew@psr.edu.
• Irene Lin is associate director of the Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies, Stanford University in Stanford, Calif.  Contact 650-736-1301, ihl@stanford.edu.
• Charles J. McClain Jr. is lecturer in residence and vice chairman of the jurisprudence and social policy program at the University of California, Berkeley, law school. He edited the four-volume anthology Asian Americans and the Law: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Contact 510-642-4038, cmcclain@law.berkeley.edu.
• Anselm Kyongsuk Min is a professor of the philosophy of religion and theology at Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, Calif. Contact 909-607-3878, anselm.min@cgu.edu.
• Kirsten Oh is a doctoral student at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, Calif., who can discuss Asian-American evangelicals. Contact koh@fuller.edu.
• Paul R. Spickard is a professor of 20^th-century American social and cultural history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He co-edited Revealing the Sacred in Asian & Pacific America. Contact 805-893-2512, spickard@history.ucsb.edu.
• Mai-Anh Le Tran, who emigrated at age 10 from Vietnam to the United States, is assistant professor of religious education and Asian-American cultures at the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, Calif. Contact 510-849-8277, mtran@psr.edu.
• Oliver Wang is an assistant professor of sociology at California State University, Long Beach, and writes about Asian-American cinema and about music, youth culture, popular culture and politics. Contact oliverwang@gmail.com.
• Min Zhou is a professor of sociology and Asian-American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and she studies Asian immigration to the United States. Her books include, as co-editor, Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader and, as co-author, Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States and Straddling Two Social Worlds: The Experience of Vietnamese Refugee Children in the United States. Contact 310-825-3532, mzhou@soc.ucla.edu.