Gatherings in Diaspora

by Warner, R. Stephen; Wittner, Judith G.

• ISBN13: 9781566396134
• ISBN10: 1566396131
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-04-23
• Publisher: Temple Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Introduction Immigration and Religious Communities in the United States	3	(34)
R. Stephen Warner
I Religion and the Negotiation of Identities	37	(60)
1 Becoming American by Becoming Hindu: Indian Americans Take Their Place at the Multicultural Table	37	(34)
Prema Kurien
2 From the Rivers of Babylon to the Valleys of Los Angeles: The Exodus and Adaptation of Iranian Jews	71	(26)
Shoshanah Feher
II Transnational Migrants and Religious Hosts	97	(66)
3 Santa Eulalia's People in Exile: Maya Religion, Culture, and Identity in Los Angeles	97	(26)
Nancy J. Wellmeier
4 The Madonna of 115th Street Revisited: Vodou and Haitian Catholicism in the Age of Transnationalism	123	(40)
Elizabeth McAlister
III Institutional Adaptations	163	(102)
5 Born Again in East LA: The Congregation as Border Space	163	(34)
Luis Leon
6 The House That Rasta Built: Church-Building and Fundamentalism Among New York Rastafarians	197	(38)
Randal L. Hepner
7 Structural Adaptations in an Immigrant Muslim Congregation in New York	235	(30)
Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
IV Internal Differentiation	265	(100)
8 Caroling with the Keralites: The Negotiation of Gendered Space in an Indian Immigrant Church	265	(30)
Sheba George
9 Competing for the Second Generation: English-Language Ministry at a Korean Protestant Church	295	(38)
Karen J. Chai
10 Tenacious Unity in a Contentious Community: Cultural and Religious Dynamics in a Chinese Christian Church	333	(32)
Fenggang Yang
Conclusion A Reader Among Fieldworkers	365	(20)
Judith G. Wittner
Project Director's Acknowledgments	385	(4)
About the Contributors and Editors	389	(2)
Index	391