Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-322) and index.

Part I. History and identity -- ch. 1. Fishing the Asia Pacific : transnationalism and feminist theology / Kwok Pui-lan -- ch. 2. The "indigestible" Asian : the unifying term "Asian" in theological discourse / Nami Kim -- ch. 3. "She stood in tears amid the alien corn" : Ruth the perpetual foreigner and model minority / Gale A. Yee -- Part II. Reinventing spiritual traditions -- ch. 4. Spiritual buffet : the changing diet of America / Jung Ha Yee -- ch. 5. May you storm heaven with your prayers : devotions to Mary and Jesus in Filipino American Catholic Life / Rachel A.R. Bundang -- ch. 6. Ancestral returns : reexamining the horizons of Asian American religious practice / Jane Naomi Iwamura -- Part III. Reorienting we-self -- ch. 7. Cooking without recipes : interstitial integrity / Rita Nakashima Brock -- ch. 8. Violence and Asian American experience : from abjection to Jeong / Wonhee Anne Joh -- ch. 9. Bitter melon, bitter delight : reading Jeremiah reading me / Lai Ling Elizabeth Ngan -- ch. 10. No garlic, please, we are Indian : reconstructing the de-eroticized Indian woman / Anne Dondapati Allen -- Part IV. Embodied agency -- ch. 11. Salmon and carp, bannock and rice : solidarity between Asian Canadian women and aboriginal women / Greer Anne Wenh-In Hg -- ch. 12. When justice collapses : a religious response to sexual violence and trafficking in women in Asia / Nantawan Boonprasat Lewis -- ch. 13. Rice, medicine, and nature : women's environmental activism and interreligious cooperation in Taiwan / Wan-Li Ho -- ch. 14. Has Jesus ever condemned divorce? an intercultural interpretation of Jesus' saying on divorce / Seung Ai Yang -- ch. 15. A story of its own name : Hong Kong's Tongzhi culture and movement / Rose Wu -- ch. 16. Re-creating our mothers' dishes : Asian and Asian North Ameriucan women's pedagogy / Boyung Lee.