David Yoo Contentious Spirits Hardcover sku-54364302

Contentious Spirits: Religion in Korean American History, 1903-1945 (Hardcover), by David Yoo, is listed under United States History Books. Historian David K. Yoo examines religion in Korean American history in Hawai'i and California during the first half of the twentieth century.

He argues that religion is the most important aspect of this group's experience because its structures and sensibilities address the full range of human experience. The book follows three relational themes: religion and race, migration and exile, and colonialism and independence.

It examines how religion shaped the racialization of Koreans in the United States, fueled transnational migration and its connections to exile, and figured in visions and activities of independence while also being entangled in colonialism.

Described as the first book-length study of religion in Korean American history, it is aimed at academics and general readers interested in Asian American history, American religious history and ethnic studies. SKU: sku-54364302.