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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... Korea , and India ) has been the most dramatic , up from 6 % in the 1950s to 45 % in the 1980s . While the percentage of legal immigrants who came from Mexico and other Spanish - speaking countries in the 1960s and 1980s remained ...
... Korea , and India ) has been the most dramatic , up from 6 % in the 1950s to 45 % in the 1980s . While the percentage of legal immigrants who came from Mexico and other Spanish - speaking countries in the 1960s and 1980s remained ...
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... Korean , and Filipino railroad and agricultural workers early in the century , also brought non - Europeans to the United States , many of whom stayed and raised families . In addition , since 1965 large numbers of refugees from Cuba ...
... Korean , and Filipino railroad and agricultural workers early in the century , also brought non - Europeans to the United States , many of whom stayed and raised families . In addition , since 1965 large numbers of refugees from Cuba ...
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... Korean 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 ...
... Korean 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 ...
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... Korean 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 ...
... Korean 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 ...
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... Korean 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 ...
... Korean 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 ...
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