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- Title
Embracing Your Bicultural Identity: Implications for Pastoral Theologians from an Asian American Perspective.
- Authors
Huh, John
- Abstract
This article examines the bicultural identity of Asian Americans and its potential relevance to the in-between identity of pastoral theologians. I suggest that both Asian Americans and pastoral theologians have hyphenated identities that allow them to exist betwixt and between two particular cultures or disciplines. Consequently, I explore the unique pressures that are experienced by those who have a bicultural identity. However, I also argue that there are unique strengths and advantages to having a bicultural identity. Two particular images of the bat, as depicted in Aesop's fables, are used as metaphors to help understand the context of bicultural individuals and pastoral theologians, and to encourage further inquiry of their strengths and vantage points.
- Subjects
HUGGING; BICULTURALISM; PASTORAL theology; ASIAN Americans; METAPHOR; AESOP'S fables
- Publication
Pastoral Psychology, 2011, Vol 60, Issue 3, p355
- ISSN
0031-2789
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11089-011-0335-x