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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... diversity of religious structures and groups both in southwest Houston and throughout the metroplex . I now know that within a five - mile radius of that road exist at least thirty churches , temples , mosques , gudwaras , storefronts ...
... diversity of religious structures and groups both in southwest Houston and throughout the metroplex . I now know that within a five - mile radius of that road exist at least thirty churches , temples , mosques , gudwaras , storefronts ...
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... diversity of all kinds into American society . They are racially and ethnically more varied than earlier streams of ... diversity within their congregations . This religious diversity , evident in the thousands of ethnic congregations ...
... diversity of all kinds into American society . They are racially and ethnically more varied than earlier streams of ... diversity within their congregations . This religious diversity , evident in the thousands of ethnic congregations ...
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... diversity in U.S. society . Shifts in immigrant origins are having a profound impact on the racial and ethnic composition of this country . While immigration has added to the population of all racial and ethnic groups in the United ...
... diversity in U.S. society . Shifts in immigrant origins are having a profound impact on the racial and ethnic composition of this country . While immigration has added to the population of all racial and ethnic groups in the United ...
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... diversity of the congregation . While we relied on a snowball tech- nique to locate interviewees , we were careful to vary the sample by gender , age , marital status , occupation , education , and degree of involvement in the ...
... diversity of the congregation . While we relied on a snowball tech- nique to locate interviewees , we were careful to vary the sample by gender , age , marital status , occupation , education , and degree of involvement in the ...
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... diversity in the late twentieth century . Table 1. Houston : Percent Foreign Born , 1960-1997 Year Houston Population Percent Foreign - Born 1960 938,219 2.6 1970 1,232,572 3.0 1980 1,595,138 9.8 1990 1,630,553 17.8 1997 1,774,332 22.6 ...
... diversity in the late twentieth century . Table 1. Houston : Percent Foreign Born , 1960-1997 Year Houston Population Percent Foreign - Born 1960 938,219 2.6 1970 1,232,572 3.0 1980 1,595,138 9.8 1990 1,630,553 17.8 1997 1,774,332 22.6 ...
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Religion and the New Immigrants: Continuities and Adaptations in Immigrant ... Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh No preview available - 2000 |
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