Gatherings in Diaspora : Religious Communities and the New Immigration

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

• ISBN13: 9781566396141
• ISBN10: 156639614X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-04-23
• Publisher: Temple Univ Pr

Summary

Gatherings in Diaspora brings together the latest chapters in the long-running chronicle of religion and immigration in the American experience. Today, as in the past, people migrating to the United States bring their religions with them, and their religious identities often mean more to them away from home, in their diaspora, than they did before.This book explores and analyzes the diverse religious communities of post-1965 diasporas: Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Rastafarians, and practitioners of Vodou, from countries such as China, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Iran, Jamaica, Korea, and Mexico. The contributors explore how, to a greater or lesser extent, immigrants and their offspring adapt their religious institutions to American conditions, often interacting with religious communities already established. The religious institutions they build, adapt, remodel, and adopt become worlds unto themselves, congregations, where new relations are forged within the community-between men and women, parents and children, recent arrival and those longer settled. Author note: R. Stephen Warner, Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is the author of New Wine in Old Wineskins: Evangelicals and Liberals in a Small-Town Church. >P>Judith G. Wittner is Associate Professor of Sociology and former Director of Women's Studies at Loyola University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Religion and the Negotiation of Identities	p. 35
Notes	p. 65
Notes	p. 67
from the Rivers of Babylon to the Valleys of Los Angeles: the Exodus and Adaptation of Iranian Jews	p. 71
Notes	p. 90
Notes	p. 92
Transnational Migrants and Religious Hosts	p. 95
Notes	p. 117
Notes	p. 117
Notes	p. 120
the Madonna of 115th Street Revisited: Vodou and Haitian Catholicism in the Age of Transnationalism	p. 123
Acknowledgments	p. 155
Notes	p. 155
Notes	p. 157
Institutional Adaptations	p. 161
References	p. 195
References	p. 195
the House That Rasta Built: Church-Building and Fundamentalism Among New York Rastafarians	p. 197
Notes	p. 228
Notes	p. 228
Structural Adaptations in An Immigrant Muslim Congregation in New York	p. 235
Acknowledgments	p. 258
Acknowledgments	p. 259
Acknowledgments	p. 259
Internal Differentiation	p. 263
Caroling with the Keralites: the Negotiation of Gendered Space in An Indian Immigrant Church	p. 265
Notes	p. 291
References	p. 293
Competing for the Second Generation: English-Language Ministry at A Korean Protestant Church	p. 295
References	p. 323
References	p. 328
Tenacious Unity in A Contentious Community: Cultural and Religious Dynamics in A Chinese Christian Church	p. 333
Notes	p. 357
Notes	p. 357
Notes	p. 360
Conclusion	p. 363
Acknowledgments	p. 382
References	p. 382
Project Director's Acknowledgments	p. 385
About the Contributors and Editors	p. 389
Index	p. 391
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