Angafakafonua as Tongan identity : Tongan mormonism, the Tongan crip gang, and sacred education spaces
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In this dissertation, I survey Tongan historical narratives, ethnographies, social media, and personal interviews to understand the role of religion in producing a Tongan American identity. In analyzing details from this survey, I identify the religious thread of angafakafonua (way of the land) as the process by which Tongans navigated their new American landscape in the 1950s and beyond. The thread of angafakafonua connects 19th c. Wesleyan Methodist Christianity, Tongan Mormonism, and Tongan Crip Gang members in Utah. My dissertation argues that religion is essential to understanding Tongan collective identity in America. Tongan Americans construct their ethnic and racial identities through the lens of religion—that is, Tongans navigate their racial identity in America through a religious epistemology. Indeed, for Tongan Americans, religion and race are co-constitutional: their religious and racial identities are created over and against each other.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2022; ©2022 |
| Publication date | 2022; 2022 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Uhamaka, Esiteli |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Gin Lum, Kathryn |
| Thesis advisor | Gin Lum, Kathryn |
| Thesis advisor | Chang, Gordon H |
| Thesis advisor | Diaz, Vicente |
| Degree committee member | Chang, Gordon H |
| Degree committee member | Diaz, Vicente |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Religious Studies |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Esiteli Hafoka. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Religious Studies. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2022. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/qq537qh0294 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2022 by Esiteli Uhamaka
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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