Undocumented Migration as a Theologizing Experience : Religious Stories Korean American Dreamers Tell in the Face of Uncertainty /

Undocumented Migration as a Theologizing Experience : Religious Stories Korean American Dreamers Tell in the Face of Uncertainty /

In Undocumented Migration as a Theologizing Experience , Eunil David Cho examines how Korean American undocumented young adults tell religious stories to cope with the violence of uncertainty and construct new meanings for themselves. Based on in-depth interviews guided by narrative inquiry, the boo...

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Main Author: Cho, Eunil David (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Theology in Practice ; 13.

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Korean Americans > Religion.
Koreans > United States > Social conditions.

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Call Number: BR563.K67

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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 Undocumented Migration as a Theologizing Experience: How Korean American DACA Recipients Make Sense of Their Lives
  • 2 What Is DACA and Why Does It Matter?
  • 3 Why Do the Stories of DACA Recipients Matter? And Why Do They Matter Now?
  • 4 Outline of Chapters
  • Part 1: Examining Story-Shaped Lives in Pastoral Theology
  • 1 Documenting the Undocumented Stories: Pastoral Theology and Narrative Approaches to Qualitative Research
  • 1 Seeking Care and Justice: The Communal-Contextual Turn in Pastoral Theology
  • 2 Caring through Human Stories: Narrative Turn in Pastoral Theology and Care
  • 3 Documenting the Undocumented Stories of Korean American DACA Recipients
  • 4 Conclusion
  • 2 We Are the Stories We Tell: Narrative Identity Formation and Development
  • 1 The Ethical Narrative Identity Thesis
  • 2 Psychological Perspectives on Narrative Identity
  • 3 Reading Lives: Employing Narrative Identity in Pastoral Theology and Care
  • 4 Religion as Personal Ideology in Self-Narratives
  • 5 Conclusion: Why We Tell Religious Stories
  • Part 2: Documenting the Undocumented Stories of Korean Americans
  • 3 Looking Back: Uplifting the Korean American Stories Seldom Heard
  • 1 Introducing the Storytellers: Korean American DACA Recipients
  • 2 The Background Story: Becoming Undocumented in the United States
  • 3 Undocumented Family Stories: Navigating Immigrant Family Dynamics as Narrative Environment
  • 4 Undocumented Stories of Pursuing Education: Navigating Public Schools as Narrative Environments
  • 5 The Silenced Voices: Living under the Shadow of Model Minority Myth
  • 6 Conclusion
  • 4 Seeing the Present: The Violence of Uncertainty, Identity Foreclosure, and the Loss of Narrative Outlook on Life
  • 1 Understanding Uncertainty in the Stories of DACA Recipients
  • 2 The Violence of Uncertainty: When Uncertainty Becomes Everyday Reality
  • 3 Narrative Identity Experiencing and Processing the Violence of Uncertainty Narrative Identity Foreclosure: My Story Is Over
  • 4 The Uncertain Self Experiencing Narrative Foreclosure
  • 5 The Loss of Narrative Outlook on Life
  • 5 Looking Forward: Telling the Religious Stories in the Face of Uncertainty
  • 1 Telling Religious Stories as Religious Coping and Meaning Making
  • 2 Prayer as Telling Religious Stories with God
  • 3 Telling Religious Stories as Pastoral Conversation with Undocumented Young Immigrants
  • 4 Conclusion: Empowering Immigrants to Be Interpreters and Narrators of Their Stories
  • Bibliography
  • Index.