This article is an exploration of marriages between white American Jews and non-Christian or Jewish Asian Americans in order to illustrate how Christian roots and biases inherent in the term religion delineate these families’ boundaries around family practice such that such Jewish-Asian American families produce a broader range of cultural mixture than their Jewish-Christian counterparts. It argues that this blending occurs because of the different relationships to the notion of “religion” held by American Jews and non-Christian/Jewish Asian Americans, and their histories in the United States, due to 1) the reality that American Jews have been deeply involved in shaping contemporary understandings of religion in the United States and have spent several generations being formed by those understandings, whereas many Asian Americans have not; 2) the tendency among non-Christian and Jewish Asian Americans to use broader terminology like “tradition” and “culture” to describe various practices because religion is not understood as a separate system, and 3) Jewish involvement in white American appropriation of Asian practices.

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亚裔犹太人、种族和宗教身份

本文探讨了美国白人犹太人与非基督徒或犹太亚裔美国人之间的婚姻，以说明宗教一词所固有的基督教根源和偏见如何划定这些家庭围绕家庭实践的界限，从而使这些犹太裔美国家庭产生比他们的犹太基督教同行更广泛的文化混合。它认为，这种混合的发生是因为与美国犹太人和非基督徒/犹太亚裔美国人所持有的“宗教”概念以及他们在美国的历史存在不同的关系，原因是 1）美国犹太人一直被深入参与塑造美国当代对宗教的理解，并在这些理解中形成了几代人，而许多亚裔美国人却没有；