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Asian American apostate : losing religion and finding myself at an evangelical university / R. Scott Okamoto ; foreword by traci kato-kiriyama.

by Okamoto, R. Scott, author.

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Grand Rapids, MI : Lake Drive Books, [2023]

Okamoto, R. Scott.

Asian Americans -- Biography.

College teachers -- Biography.

Evangelicalism -- United States -- Case studies.

Christian universities and colleges -- United States -- Case studies.

Spiritual life.

9781957687247 (hardback) :

xix, 233 pages ; 22 cm

"R. Scott Okamoto had no idea that his job as an English teacher at an evangelical Christian college meant facing bigotry as an Asian American and faux intellectualism as a teacher--and what it would mean for his own journey. Asian American Apostate is a wry an ironic story of leaving religion while teaching at an evangelical university. Okamoto's often chilling accounts reveal that these schools, where prayer and trite theological debate erupts in any lecture, are anything but higher education. Stories range from a classroom declaration against interracial marriage because it causes painful pregnancies, to grading a paper entitled, "Why Obama Is a Nazi," and to the times Okamoto, a popular teacher, was disciplined by school officials for keeping standards for writing. Okamoto's personal reporting gives you the inside story of how America's evangelical schools encourage not a life of the mind but White cultural power. But more than that, you'll see how Okamoto, despite personal and professional challenges, found clarity about who he was not, and who he was coming to be. Read along as Scott recounts his difficult, unlikely, and ultimately encouraging spiritual journey that will immerse you in the search for a deeper and more expansive life"--Back cover.

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