Religion And The New Immigrants
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Religion And The New Immigrants
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Author : Janet Saltzman Chafetz
language : en
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Release Date : 2000-10-18
Religion And The New Immigrants written by Janet Saltzman Chafetz and has been published by AltaMira Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-18 with Religion categories.
New immigrants_those arriving since the Immigration Reform Act of 1965_have forever altered American culture and have been profoundly altered in turn. Although the religious congregations they form are often a nexus of their negotiation between the old and new, they have received little scholarly attention. Religion and the New Immigrants fills this gap. Growing out of the carefully designed Religion, Ethnicity and the New Immigration Research project, Religion and the New Immigrants combines in-depth studies of thirteen congregations in the Houston area with seven thematic essays looking across their diversity. The congregations range from Vietnamese Buddhist to Greek Orthodox, a Zoroastrian center to a multi-ethnic Assembly of God, presenting an astonishing array of ethnicity and religious practice. Common research questions and the common location of the congregations give the volume a unique comparative focus. Religion and the New Immigrants is an essential reference for scholars of immigration, ethnicity, and American religion.
Religion And The New Immigrants
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Author : Michael W. Foley
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 2007-02-08
Religion And The New Immigrants written by Michael W. Foley and has been published by Oxford University Press on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02-08 with Religion categories.
As one of the first immigration studies to focus on the role of religion, this timely volume will interest scholars and students in a range of disciplines as well as anyone concerned about the future of our society.
Religion Across Borders
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Author : Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh
language : en
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Release Date : 2002
Religion Across Borders written by Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh and has been published by Rowman Altamira this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Social Science categories.
Religion Across Borders examines both personal and organizational networks that exist between members in U.S. immigrant religious communities and individuals and religious institutions left behind. Building upon Religion and the New Immigrants (2000)--their previous study of immigrant religious communities in Houston--sociologists Ebaugh and Chafetz ask how religious remittances flow between home and host communities, how these interchanges affect religious practices in both settings, and how influences change over time as new immigrants become settled.
Religion And Social Justice For Immigrants
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Author : Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2006-10-18
Religion And Social Justice For Immigrants written by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-18 with Religion categories.
Religion has jumped into the sphere of global and domestic politics in ways that few would have imagined a century ago. Some expected that religion would die as modernity flourished. Instead, it now stares at us almost daily from the front pages of newspapers and television broadcasts. Although it is usually stories about the Christian Right or conservative Islam that grab headlines, there are many religious activists of other political persuasions that are working quietly for social justice. This book examines how religious immigrants and religious activists are working for equitable treatment for immigrants in the United States. The essays in this book analyze the different ways in which organized religion provides immigrants with an arena for mobilization, civic participation, and solidarity. Contributors explore topics including how non-Western religious groups such as the Vietnamese Caodai are striving for community recognition and addressing problems such as racism, economic issues, and the politics of diaspora; how interfaith groups organize religious people into immigrant civil rights activists at the U.S.–Mexican border; and how Catholic groups advocate governmental legislation and policies on behalf of refugees.
Gatherings In Diaspora
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Author : Stephen Warner
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 1998-04-23
Gatherings In Diaspora written by Stephen Warner and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-04-23 with History categories.
Gatherings in Diaspora brings together the latest chapters in the long-running chronicle of religion and immigration in the American experience. Today, as in the past, people migrating to the United States bring their religions with them, and their religious identities often mean more to them away from home, in their diaspora, than they did before. This book explores and analyzes the diverse religious communities of post-1965 diasporas: Christians, Hews, Muslims, Hindus, Rastafarians, and practitioners of Vodou, from countries such as China, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Iran, Jamaica, Korea, and Mexico. The contributors explore how, to a greater or lesser extent, immigrants and their offspring adapt their religious institutions to American conditions, often interacting with religious communities already established. The religious institutions they build, adapt, remodel, and adopt become worlds unto themselves, congregations, where new relations are forged within the community -- between men and women, parents and children, recent arrival and those longer settled.
God Needs No Passport
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Author : Peggy Levitt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
God Needs No Passport written by Peggy Levitt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Religion categories.
A provocative examination of how new realities of religion and migration are subtly challenging the very definition of what it means to be an American. Sociology professor Levitt argues that immigrants no longer trade one membership card for another, but stay close to their home countries, indelibly altering American religion and values with experiences and beliefs imported from Asia, Latin America and Africa. The book is a pointed response to Samuel Huntington's famous clash of civilisations thesis and looks at global religions' organisation for the first time.
Handbook Of The Sociology Of Religion
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Author : Michele Dillon
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-08-18
Handbook Of The Sociology Of Religion written by Michele Dillon and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-18 with Religion categories.
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Immigration And Religion In America
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Author : Richard Alba
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2009
Immigration And Religion In America written by Richard Alba and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
Religion has played a crucial role in American immigration history as an institutional resource for migrants' social adaptation, as a map of meaning for interpreting immigration experiences, and as a continuous force for expanding the national ideal of pluralism. To explain these processes the editors of this volume brought together the perspectives of leading scholars of migration and religion. The resulting essays present salient patterns in American immigrants' religious lives, past and present. In comparing the religious experiences of Mexicans and Italians, Japanese and Koreans, Eastern European Jews and Arab Muslims, and African Americans and Haitians, the book clarifies how such processes as incorporation into existing religions, introduction of new faiths, conversion, and diversification have contributed to America's extraordinary religious diversity and add a comprehensive religious dimension to our understanding of America as a nation of immigrants.
New Faiths Old Fears
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Author : Bruce B. Lawrence
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2004-10-20
New Faiths Old Fears written by Bruce B. Lawrence and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-20 with Religion categories.
As a result of immigration from Asia in the wake of the passage of the 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act, the fastest-growing religions in America—faster than all Christian groups combined—are Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism. In this remarkable book, a leading scholar of religion asks how these new faiths have changed or have been changed by the pluralist face of American civil society. How have these new religious minorities been affected by the deep-rooted American ambivalence toward foreign traditions? Bruce Lawrence casts a comparativist eye on the American religious scene and explores the ways in which various groups of Asian immigrants have, and sometimes have not, been integrated into the American polity. In the process, he offers several important correctives. Too often, Lawrence argues, profiles of Asian American experience focus exclusively on immigrants from East Asia, to the exclusion of South Asian and West Asian voices.New Faiths, Old Fears seeks to make all Asians equally important and to break free of traditional geographic markers, most reflecting nineteenth-century imperial values, that artificially divide the people of the "Middle East" from the rest of Asia, with whom they share certain religious and cultural ties. Iranian Americans, in particular, emerge as a vital bridge group whose experience tells us much about how Asians of many different backgrounds have found their way in their new nation. Beyond simply expanding and refining our conception of who Asian Americans are, Lawrence draws instructive comparisons between Asian Americans' experience and those of Native, African, and Hispanic Americans, exposing undercurrents of racial and class antagonisms. He concludes that we cannot fully comprehend the contours and valences of culture and religion in America without understanding how this racialized class prejudice shapes the views of the dominant class toward immigrants and other marginal groups.
God In Chinatown
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Author : Kenneth J. Guest
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2003-08
God In Chinatown written by Kenneth J. Guest and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08 with Religion categories.
An insightful look into the central role of religious community in the largest contemporary wave of new immigrants to New York Chinatown yet God in Chinatown is a path breaking study of the largest contemporary wave of new immigrants to Chinatown. Since the 1980s, tens of thousands of mostly rural Chinese have migrated from Fuzhou, on China’s southeastern coast, to New York’s Chinatown. Like the Cantonese who comprised the previous wave of migrants, the Fuzhou have brought with them their religious beliefs, practices, and local deities. In recent years these immigrants have established numerous specifically Fuzhounese religious communities, ranging from Buddhist, Daoist, and Chinese popular religion to Protestant and Catholic Christianity. This ethnographic study examines the central role of these religious communities in the immigrant incorporation process in Chinatown’s highly stratified ethnic enclave, as well as the transnational networks established between religious communities in New York and China. The author’s knowledge of Chinese coupled with his extensive fieldwork in both China and New York enable him to illuminate how these networks transmit religious and social dynamics to the United States, as well as how these new American institutions influence religious and social relations in the religious revival sweeping southeastern China. God in Chinatown is the first study to bring to light religion's significant role in the Fuzhounese immigrants’ dramatic transformation of the face of New York’s Chinatown.