PANA Institute for Leadership Development

Papers from the 2001 APARRI Conference

The PANA Institute is pleased to be able to present a selection of papers from
the 2001 APARRI Conference on "Religion and Public Life in Pacific and
Asian North America." The series is edited by Himanee Gupta from the University
of Hawaii, and additional pieces will be posted on a regular basis.

All rights to the included works are the property of the respective authors,
and no papers or portions thereof may be cited or reproduced for distribution
without express permission from the authors.

Click on the selections below to view abstracts. From the abstract pages, you
may choose to see the full manuscripts.

• "My Father Has No Children:
  Reflections on a hapa identity and a hermeneutic of particularity"
  Henry Rietz, Grinnell College, Iowa
• "Sacred Stories Behind Public
  Life: Intermingling religion, historiography and Ethnic Studies"
  Roy I. Sano, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA
• "'Hidden in Plain Sight':
  The semiotics of caste among Indians in the United States"
  Himanee Gupta, University of Hawai'i