Religion and the New Immigrants: Continuities and Adaptations in Immigrant CongregationsNew 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. |
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... Christian Church . Kathleen Sullivan's fluency in Spanish , her an- thropological research among evangelical Christians in Chiapas , Mexico , and her knowl- edge of Mexican and Latin American cultures facilitated her access into ...
... Christian Church . Kathleen Sullivan's fluency in Spanish , her an- thropological research among evangelical Christians in Chiapas , Mexico , and her knowl- edge of Mexican and Latin American cultures facilitated her access into ...
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... Christian , they are expressing their Christianity in languages , cus- toms , and independent churches that are barely recognizable , and often controversial , for European - ancestry Catholics and Protestants . R. Stephen Warner ...
... Christian , they are expressing their Christianity in languages , cus- toms , and independent churches that are barely recognizable , and often controversial , for European - ancestry Catholics and Protestants . R. Stephen Warner ...
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... Christian churches than Filipino Catholic ones , even though Korean immigrants number about half as many as Filipino , to the significantly larger number of Korean social scientists in the United States . An additional reason for the ...
... Christian churches than Filipino Catholic ones , even though Korean immigrants number about half as many as Filipino , to the significantly larger number of Korean social scientists in the United States . An additional reason for the ...
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... Christian churches in the United States than any other immigrant religious institutions . Among the important les- sons we have learned from studies of these churches ( Hurh and Kim 1990 ; Min 1992 ; Shin and Park 1988 ) is the fact ...
... Christian churches in the United States than any other immigrant religious institutions . Among the important les- sons we have learned from studies of these churches ( Hurh and Kim 1990 ; Min 1992 ; Shin and Park 1988 ) is the fact ...
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... Christian churches not only provided guidance for the study of the Houston Korean Ethnic Church , but also challenged us to be attentive to both the obvious and the subtle functions that each of our congregations fulfill in the lives of ...
... Christian churches not only provided guidance for the study of the Houston Korean Ethnic Church , but also challenged us to be attentive to both the obvious and the subtle functions that each of our congregations fulfill in the lives of ...
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