Immigration and religion in America : comparative and historical perspectives /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Social Science Research Council (U.S.)
Other Authors: Alba, Richard D., Raboteau, Albert J., DeWind, Josh
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2009]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Comparisons of migrants and their religions, past and present / Richard Alba, Albert J. Raboteau, and Josh DeWind
  • Pt. I. Integration of Italian and Mexican immigrants into an American religion
  • Passages in piety : generational transitions and the social and religious incorporation of Italian Americans / Richard Alba and Robert Orsi
  • Migration and Mexican American religious life, 1848-2000 / Roberto Lint Sagarena
  • Whither the flock? : the Catholic Church and the success of Mexicans in America / David Lopez
  • Pt. II. Religious conversion among Japanese and Korean immigrants
  • Japanese and Korean migrations : Buddhist and Christian communities in America, 1885-1945 / Lori Pierce, Paul Spickard, and David Yoo
  • Critical faith : Japanese Americans and the birth of a new civil religion / Jane Naomi Iwamura
  • Buddhism, rhetoric, and the Korean American community : the adjustment of Korean Buddhist immigrants to the United States / Sharon A. Suh
  • Pt. III. Incorporation of new religious into American society by European Jews and Arab Muslims
  • Immigration and the transformation of American Jews : assimilation, distinctiveness, and community / Calvin Goldscheider
  • Choosing chosenness in America : the changing faces of Judaism / Arnold Eisen
  • The shaping of Arab and Muslim identity in the United States / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
  • Muslim, Arab, and American : the adaptation of Muslim Arab immigrants to American society / Ann Chih Lin
  • Pt. IV. Religious diversification among African American and Haitian migrants
  • Black migration, religion, and civic life / James Grossman and Albert Raboteau
  • Catholic, Vodou, and Protestant : being Haitian, becoming American : religious pluralism, immigrant incorporation, and transnationalism / Elizabeth McAlister and Karen Richman.