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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... native garb is not uncommon at regular Sunday services . When these visual images are combined with the omnipresent sound of native ver- naculars , often the sounds of home - country music , and in several cases the smell of in- cense ...
... native garb is not uncommon at regular Sunday services . When these visual images are combined with the omnipresent sound of native ver- naculars , often the sounds of home - country music , and in several cases the smell of in- cense ...
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... native dialect , in this case " an urgent jumble of sounds in which African words and fragments of Creole tumble over each other . " Among the immigrants , use of the Creole dialect calls forth memories of candlelit cemetery rituals and ...
... native dialect , in this case " an urgent jumble of sounds in which African words and fragments of Creole tumble over each other . " Among the immigrants , use of the Creole dialect calls forth memories of candlelit cemetery rituals and ...
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... native Arabic speakers , became contested territory and led to a rupture between Arab and other Sunni Muslims . Now ... native language is usually the first old - country practice to disappear . Portes and Rumbaut ( 1990 ) and Rumbaut ...
... native Arabic speakers , became contested territory and led to a rupture between Arab and other Sunni Muslims . Now ... native language is usually the first old - country practice to disappear . Portes and Rumbaut ( 1990 ) and Rumbaut ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Introduction | 13 |
Hispanic and Asian Immigration Waves in Houston | 29 |
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