LibGuides: Curated Bibliographies: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (May)

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Book Display

Book cover: Good soil: the education of an accidental farmhand

Book cover: Transpacific political theology: perspectives, paradigms, proposals

Book cover: Undocumented migration as a theologizing experience: religious stories Korean American dreamers tell in the face of uncertainty

Book cover: A longing to belong: reflections on faith, identity, and race

Book cover: An Asian American Theology of Liberation

Book cover: Union with Christ: re-reading Calvin in Korean-American Reformed theology

Book cover: A Transpacific Imagination of Theology, Ethics, and Spiritual Activism

Book cover: From a liminal place : an Asian American theology

Book cover: Follow the new way : American refugee resettlement policy and Hmong religious change

Book cover: Doing Asian American Theology : a contextual framework for faith and practice

Book cover: Learning our names: Asian American Christians on identity, relationships, and vocation

Book cover: Disciplined by race : theological ethics and the problem of Asian American identity

Book cover: Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism

Book cover: Christianity, Social Justice, and the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II

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Center for Asian American Christianity, Selected Lectures and Digital Resources

Center for Asian American Christianity | Princeton Theological Seminary (PTSCAAC)
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Our Story, Our Faith South Asian American Christian Histories and Futures
June 6–7, 2025 · Philadelphia, PA, a hybrid conference at Seven Mile Road Church sponsored by The Center for Asian American Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary, Fuller Asian American Christian History Institute, American Baptist Home Mission Societies, and Epic Movement, a Cru Ministry
“Lived Theology in Asian America: Race, Justice, and Politics in Transpacific Context” Theology Today, Special Issue (login required)
Also available in print PER BR1 .T62, January 2023 v.79 no.4
2025 Sang Hyun Lee Lecture – The Challenges of Doing Transpacific Theology
October 29 @ 7:00 pm - Dr. Kwok Pui-lan is a Distinguished Scholar at Episcopal Divinity School and a past president of the American Academy of Religion. She has authored and edited numerous books on Asian and Asian American feminist theology, biblical interpretation, and postcolonial criticism. She is the author of The Anglican Tradition from a Postcolonial Perspective and Postcolonial Politics and Theology. She is the editor of Transpacific Political Theology: Perspectives, Paradigms, Proposals. Dr. Kwok received the Lanfranc Award for Education and Scholarship from the Archbishop of Canterbury in 2021. RSVP requested
2024 Mental Health Conference | Center for Asian American Christianity (YouTube playlist)
Intergenerational Wholeness for Asian Americans: Integrative Approaches to Christian Spiritual and Mental Health Formation. Speakers include: Jessica ChenFeng, Jeney Park-Hearn, Sharon Wada and David C. Chao; recorded January 12–13, 2024
2023 Asian American Theology Conference | Princeton Theological Seminary (YouTube playlist)
Multiple Belongings in Transpacific Christianities: Christian Faith and Asian Migration to the US, hosted by The Center for Asian American Christianity in partnership with the Overseas Ministries Study Center, April 28-29, 2023
2023 Sang Hyun Lee Lecture on Asian American Theology and Ministry (YouTube)
Lecturer: Rev. Dr. Janette Ok, "The Fiery Ordeal among You” (1 Pet 4:12): How the Impact of Anti-Asian Hate Speech and Hate Incidents Sheds Light on the Nature of Suffering in 1 Peter, recorded March 28, 2023;
2022 Mental Health and Asian Americans Conference (YouTube playlist)
Video recordings from the January 24, 2022 conference, hosted by the Center for Asian American Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary. Dr. Russell Jeung, Plenary Lecture: "Stop AAPI Hate and Racial Trauma;" Rev. Dr. Jin Lee, Workshop: "Mental Health And Spirituality: Know The Difference And Help Accordingly;" Rev. Dr. Eunbee Ham, Workshop: "Growing Together: Cultivating Healthy Communities Through Conflict Resolution;" Dr. Joel Jin, Workshop: "Pastoring a Congregation of Whole People, Not Perfect People;" Dr. Samuel Kim, Workshop: "Active Listening Skills for Congregational Change"
2022 Mental Health and Asian Americans Conference (Soundcloud playlist)
Audio recordings from the January 24, 2022 conference, hosted by the Center for Asian American Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary. Dr. Russell Jeung, Plenary Lecture: "Stop AAPI Hate and Racial Trauma;" Rev. Dr. Jin Lee, Workshop: "Mental Health And Spirituality: Know The Difference And Help Accordingly;" Rev. Dr. Eunbee Ham, Workshop: "Growing Together: Cultivating Healthy Communities Through Conflict Resolution;" Dr. Joel Jin, Workshop: "Pastoring a Congregation of Whole People, Not Perfect People;" Dr. Samuel Kim, Workshop: "Active Listening Skills for Congregational Change"
2021 Asian American Theology Conference (YouTube playlist)
Speakers: Dr. Geomon George, Associate Dean and Core Faculty Member, City Seminary of New York; Dr. Jonathan Tran, Associate Professor of Religion and George W. Baines Chair of Religion, Baylor University; Dr. Easten Law, Ph. D from Georgetown University researching lived theology, public life, and religious pluralism in contemporary China, Princeton Theological Seminary; Dr. Melissa Borja, Assistant Professor of American Culture and core faculty member in the Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program, University of Michigan; Gillian Chu, PhD Candidate in the Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics at St. Mary's College at the University of St. Andrews; Dr. Jane Hong, Associate Professor of History, Occidental College; Dr. Jerry Park, Associate Professor of Sociology and Affiliate Fellow of Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University; Dr. David Chao, Director, Asian American Program, Princeton Theological Seminary
2021 Korean Missional Conference | Missio Seminary
Recorded webinar by Rev. Eung Do Lee
2019 Asian American Theology Conference | Princeton Theological Seminary (YouTube playlist)
Dr. Hyepin Im, "Faith and Community Empowerment"
Dr. Russell Jeung, "An Asian American Exilic Call to Politics"
2019 Asian American Theology Conference | Princeton Theological Seminary (audio)
Dr. Russell Jeung, "An Asian American Exilic Call to Politics"
Dr. Hyepin Im, "Faith and Community Empowerment"
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African Americans, Asian Americans, and the Histories of Slavery and Racism within the Presbyterian Church and Princeton Theological Seminary (YouTube)
As an historian who also studies Asian American Christianity, William Yoo makes connections between the histories of anti-Black racism and anti-Asian hate within and beyond the Presbyterian Church; recorded April 17, 2023
Asian American Christian Collaborative
The Asian American Christian Collaborative (AACC) is committed to amplifying the voices, issues, and histories of Asian Americans, both within the church and society at large. Though we recognize that the term “Asian American” (Asian Pacific Islander Desi American) is diverse and we cannot speak on behalf of every individual, our aim is to cultivate awareness of and celebrate the Asian American community, while being as inclusive as possible towards the various cultural narratives we hold.
Asian Americans (PBS film series)
Told through intimate and personal lives, the series casts a new lens on U.S. history and the ongoing role that Asian Americans have played in shaping the nation’s story. is a production of WETA Washington, DC and the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) for PBS, in association with the Independent Television Service (ITVS), Flash Cuts and Tajima-Peña Productions. The series executive producers are Jeff Bieber for WETA; Stephen Gong and Donald Young for CAAM; Sally Jo Fifer for ITVS; and Jean Tsien. The series producer is Renee Tajima-Peña. The producer for Flash Cuts is Eurie Chung. The episode producers are S. Leo Chiang, Geeta Gandbhir and Grace Lee. The consulting producer is Mark Jonathan Harris.
Asian Association Lectures (audio)
Public lectures from the Princeton Theological Seminary Media Archive, Theological Commons
Asian Exclusion and the Church: Ripples from the 1924 Immigration Act | Hybrid Conference (Replay available to registrants)
May 29, 2024, a hybrid conference hosted by the Asian American Christian History Institute, Center for Asian American Christianity (Princeton Theological Seminary), and Epic Movement. Read about other Center for Asian American Christianity events.
Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month Exhibits and Collections
May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of Asian and Pacific Islanders who have enriched America’s history and are instrumental in its future success.
Barth on Creation (book chapter)
Login required. Chao, David C. 2019. "Barth on Creation." In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Karl Barth, edited by George Hunsinger and Keith L. Johnson, 113-124. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Dr. David C. Chao is director of the newly expanded Asian American Program at Princeton Theological Seminary.
Conference on Asian American Experience (audio)
Public lectures from the Princeton Theological Seminary Media Archive, Theological Commons
Dr. Jane Hong | How Post-1965 Migration Changed US Christianity (YouTube)
This lecture was recorded on April 28, 2023, as part of the 2023 Asian American Theology Conference “Multiple Belongings in Transpacific Christianities: Christian Faith and Asian Migration to the US.”
Facing Other Religions--Asian Religions: Panel 8 | Kōsuke Koyama (audio with transcript)
October 29, 1998. Kosuke Koyama's lecture is on the Christian approach to Buddhism.
The Five Asian/Korean American Preacher Images, by Sunggu Yang (2016)
This paper, based on the five codes, introduces five of the preacher’s image or self-identity that has developed in the Korean American church; a. the Fellow Pilgrim (The Wilderness Pilgrimage Code), b. the Missional Evangelist (The Diasporic Mission Code), c. the Familial Shepherd (The Confucian Egalitarian Code), d. Informed Guide and Christian Shaman (The Buddhist Shamanistic Code), and e. the Charismatic Midwife and Avant-garde Protestor (The Pentecostal Liberation Code). Copyright © 2012 Sunggu Yang. Presented here with permission of Sunggu Yang and the Academy of Homiletics.
Imagine Otherwise
Relaunched online magazine of the Center for Asian American Christianity (CAAC) at Princeton Theological Seminary. Imagine Otherwise fosters conversations on all things related to Asian American theology and showcases how God is at work in and through the lives of East Asian, South Asian, and Southeast Asian Christians in the U.S and North America.
Lessons From 50 Years of Asian American Studies for Asian American Theology (audio)
Speaker: Dr. Russell Jeung, professor and chair of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University, February 27, 2020
Lessons From 50 Years of Asian American Studies for Asian American Theology (YouTube)
Speaker: Dr. Russell Jeung, professor and chair of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University, February 27, 2020
Moffett Korea Collection
Dr. Samuel H. Moffett and Eileen F. Moffett donated to Special Collections an important and substantial body of personal papers, photographs, books, and periodicals on Korea and Christianity in Korea.
[Myung Sung Presbyterian Church worship service] | Theological Commons (video recording)
A worship service at Myung Sung Presbyterian Church, Seoul, South Korea, on June 7, 2017. Dr. James F. Kay, preaching. Dr. Timothy Son, translating. St. Olaf Choir, performing.
One Yellow Sermon, by Gerald C. Liu (2016)
"In “One Yellow Sermon,” Gerald C. Liu explores what constitutes Asian American preaching by examining a sermon he recently preached at his maternal grandmother’s funeral..." Copyright © 2016 Gerald C. Liu. Presented in the Theological Commons with permission of Gerald C. Liu and the Academy of Homiletics.
Oral History of Han Kyung-Chik [Parts 1 and 2] (audio)
1985; Princeton Theological Seminary Media Archive.
"Princeton Theological Seminary has been a leading voice in Asian American theology and ministry through the work of Professor Emeritus Sang Hyun Lee, the Asian American Program, and the establishment of the Kyung-Chik Han Chair of Asian American Theology." https://www.ptsem.edu/academics/center-for-asian-american-christianity
Pacific, Asian, and North American Asian Women in Theology and Ministry (PANAAWTM)
PANAAWTM contributes to Asian and North American Asian women's theology, mentor female leaders of faith communities, and engage in social transformation for justice.
Presbyterian Women Moderator [Jyung In "Jenny" Lee] Shares Plan for Organization
Lee, an alumna of Princeton Seminary, is Presbyterian Women's first Korean moderator. Also available via Strange, Gail. "PRESBYTERIAN WOMEN MODERATOR SHARES PLAN FOR ORGANIZATION." Presbyterian Outlook, Jan 21, 2019, 7-8, https://search.proquest.com/magazines/presbyterian-women-moderator-shares-plan/docview/2176206490/se-2?accountid=13316.
The Pursuit of Asian American Happiness Improving Mental Health in the Asian American Church (YouTube playlist)
On January 19, 2023, the Center for Asian American Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary hosted an online conference. Plenary sessions featured presentations with mental health experts Dr. Jessica ChenFeng and Jess Cho Kim.
Refusing Innocence: The Tribal Consciousness of Asian-American Women Writers (audio with transcript)
Lecture by Rita Nakashima Brock, recorded February 18, 1991 at the Mackay Campus Center Auditorium
Religion (keyword search) in Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Collection | American Archive of Public Broadcasting
"The AAPI Collection features more than 230 public radio and television programs from 1965 to 2019 that highlight Asian American and Pacific Islander cultures in the United States. The collection includes interviews with Asian American artists and writers, such as Maya Lin, Aimee Lee, Jhumpa Lahiri, Amy Tan, Frank Chin, and Nai-Ni Chen. Also included are readings at the Harvard Book Store with other Asian American authors, such as Chang-Rae Lee, Gish Jen, David Chang, Nami Mun and Amy Chua...."
Resources | Center for Asian American Christianity (CAAC)
Sang Hyun Lee (keyword search) | Theological Commons
Articles, lectures, sermons and more; includes "Installation of Sang Hyun Lee and Katharine Doob Sakenfeld" (1987), "Toward an Asian-American Theology" (1984), Pilgrimage and Home in the Wilderness of Marginality: Symbols and Context in Asian American Theology" (1995), and "Claiming Our Liminal Spaces" (2006) among many others
Toyohiko Kagawa Lectures | Princeton Theological Seminary (audio)
Audio recordings of lectures in the Toyohiko Kagawa Lecture series in the Theological Commons
Viral Histories: Stories of Racism, Resilience, and Resistance in Asian American Communities | National Museum of American History
Video interviews released in May 2020. Watch via YouTube. Featured speakers: Max Leung, founder of SF Peace Collective; Abigaile De Mesa, Patient Care Coordinator; Russell Jeung, one of the founders of the Stop AAPI Hate center; Genevieve Villamora, co-owner of Bad Saint, a James Beard Award-winning Filipino restaurant in Washington, D.C.

Selected Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month Titles

More-recently published titles

AAPI LGBT Adults in the US: LGBT Well-Being at the Intersection of Race (e-book) by Soon Kyu Choi, Bianca D.M. Wilson, Lauren Bouton, Christy Mallory
Call Number: Online

Publication Date: 2021

Choi Soon Kyu; et al. AAPI LGBT Adults in the US: LGBT Well-Being at the Intersection of Race. Los Angeles, The Williams Institute.
Art and Moral Change: A Reexamination (e-book) by Ki Joo Choi
Call Number: Online

ISBN: 9781647124601

Publication Date: 2024-07-26

Also available in print at BJ46 .C48 2024
An Asian American Theology of Liberation (e-book) by Wong Tian An
Call Number: Online

ISBN: 9781643150567

Publication Date: 2023-10-31

open access
Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism by Jonathan Tran
Call Number: E184.A75 T73 2022

ISBN: 9780197617915

Publication Date: 2021-11-09

Also available as an e-book: Search Summon

Dr. Jonathan Tran | "Yellow Christianity" (video)
April 8, 2022 - Dr. Jonathan Tran's public lecture continues themes from his book, Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 2022). Dr. Tran develops an account of “yellow” politics and Christianity that begins with particular sites of racial capitalist oppression and domination and pushes toward liberative coalitional politics. He also discusses recent cases of anti-AAPI violence and their historical antecedents, liberation theology’s attention to local and transnational sources of oppressive domination, and how “yellow Christianity” offers a way forward.

Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Tran, associate professor of philosophical theology and George W. Baines Chair of Religion, Baylor University