Learning to Speak a New Tongue: Imagining a Way That Holds People Together--An Asian American Conversation

By Fumitaka Matsuoka

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608998282
• ISBN13: 9781608998289
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"