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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Karen Isaksen Leonard; et al |
| ISBN: | 0759108161 9780759108165 075910817X 9780759108172 |
| OCLC Number: | 56347754 |
| Description: | 259 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | God is apparently not dead : the obvious, the emergent, and the still unknown in immigration and religion / Alex Stepick -- "Brought together upon our own continent" : race, religion, and evangelical nationalism in American Baptist home missions, 1865-1900 / Derek Chang -- Daddy Grace : an immigrant's story / Danielle Brune Sigler -- Ritual transformations in Okinawan immigrant communities / Ronald Nakasone and Susan Sered -- Religion and the maintenance of ethnicity among immigrants : a comparison of Indian Hindus and Korean Protestants / Pyong Gap Min -- Changing religious practices among Cambodian immigrants in Long Beach and Seattle / Thomas J. Douglas -- Religion and transnational migration in the new Chinatown / Kenneth J. Guest -- The Protestant ethic and the dis-spirit of vodou / Karen Richman -- Structural and cultural hybrids : religious congregational life and public participation of Mexicans in the new South / Marie Friedmann Marquardt -- Historicizing and materializing the study of religion : the contribution of migration studies / Manuel A. Vásquez. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Karen I. Leonard ... [et al.]. |
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Abstract:
Recent immigrants are creating their own unique religious communities within existing denominations or developing hybrid identities that combine strands of several faiths or traditions. Covering groups from across the US and a range of religious traditions, this work provides an overview to this subfield.
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These studies highlight pliable and pragmatic understandings of religion, point out transnational religious networks, and emphasize religion's role in preserving immigrants' languages and cultural continuity. Religious Studies Review, June 2010 ...a valuable and timely collection of essays, with nuanced case studies and assessments of the flexibilities and complications of immigrant religions; it will be useful in the classroom and the library alike for scholars of religion, migration, and American studies. -- February 2007 H-Amstdy Read more...
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