Research Catalog

Title

Immigration and religion in America : comparative and historical perspectives / edited by Richard Alba, Albert J. Raboteau, and Josh DeWind.

Publication

New York : New York University Press, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Alba, Richard D.
• Raboteau, Albert J.
• DeWind, Josh.
• Social Science Research Council (U.S.)

Description

vi, 407 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Immigrants > Religious life > United States
• United States > Religion
• United States > Emigration and immigration

Note

• "A project organized by the Social Science Research Council."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-380) and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 09-1342

ISBN

• 9780814705049 (cl : alk. paper)
• 0814705049 (cl : alk. paper)
• 9780814705056 (pbk : alk. paper)
• 0814705057 (pbk : alk. paper)

LCCN

2008030904

OCLC

227931124

Title

Immigration and religion in America : comparative and historical perspectives / edited by Richard Alba, Albert J. Raboteau, and Josh DeWind.

Imprint

New York : New York University Press, c2009.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-380) and index.

Added Author

Alba, Richard D.

Raboteau, Albert J.

DeWind, Josh.

Social Science Research Council (U.S.)

Research Call Number

JFE 09-1342