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At Home in Exile: Finding Jesus among My Ancestors and Refugee Neighbors
Russell Jeung
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Description for At Home in Exile: Finding Jesus among My Ancestors and Refugee Neighbors
Paperback. This book traces Dr. Jeung's remarkable life and ministry among the poor in the slums of East Oakland. Despite their impoverished conditions, Jeung and the community discovered the Kingdom of God in new and powerful ways, as well as how Jesus speaks to Christian exiles. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCC99. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 208.
Russell Jeung's spiritual memoir shares the joyful and occasionally harrowing stories of his life in East Oakland's Murder Dubs neighborhood-including battling drug dealers who threatened him, exorcising a spirit possessing a teen, and winning a landmark housing settlement against slumlords with 200 of his closest Cambodian and Latino friends. More poignantly, At Home in Exile weaves in narratives of longing and belonging as Jeung retraces the steps of his Chinese-Hakka family and his refugee neighbors. In the face of forced relocation and institutional discrimination, his family and friends resisted time and time ... Read more
Russell Jeung's spiritual memoir shares the joyful and occasionally harrowing stories of his life in East Oakland's Murder Dubs neighborhood-including battling drug dealers who threatened him, exorcising a spirit possessing a teen, and winning a landmark housing settlement against slumlords with 200 of his closest Cambodian and Latino friends. More poignantly, At Home in Exile weaves in narratives of longing and belonging as Jeung retraces the steps of his Chinese-Hakka family and his refugee neighbors. In the face of forced relocation and institutional discrimination, his family and friends resisted time and time ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Zondervan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Grand Rapids, United States
ISBN
9780310527831
SKU
V9780310527831
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Russell Jeung
Dr. Russell Jeung is a leading sociologist of Asian Americans, race, and religion. He is professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University and author of Sustaining Faith Traditions: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation (with Carolyn Chen) and Faithful Generations: Race, Religion, and Asian American Churches. Dr. Jeung is also executive ... Read more
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