Learning to Speak a New Tongue
Imagining a Way that Holds People Together—An Asian American Conversation
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality
| Author: | Fumitaka Matsuoka | ISBN: | 9781498270021 |
| Publisher: | Wipf and Stock Publishers | Publication: | September 14, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Pickwick Publications | Language: | English |
| Author: | Fumitaka Matsuoka |
| ISBN: | 9781498270021 |
| Publisher: | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Publication: | September 14, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Pickwick Publications |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
