Immigrant Faiths Transforming Religious Life in America

by Leonard, Karen I.; Stepick, Alex; Vasquez, Manuel A.; Holdaway, Jennifer

• ISBN13: 9780759108165
• ISBN10: 0759108161
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-07
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

Recent immigrants are creating their own unique religious communities within existing denominations or developing hybrid identities that combine strands of several faiths or traditions. These changes call for new thinking among both scholars of religion and scholars of migration. Immigrant Faiths responds to these changes with fresh thinking from new and established scholars from a wide range of disciplines. Covering groups from across the U.S. and a range of religious traditions, Immigrant Faiths provides a needed overview to this expanding subfield.

Author Biography

Alex Stepick is professor of anthropology and sociology and the director of the Immigration and Ethnicity Institute, Florida International University in Miami.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 Introduction	1	(10)
Karen Leonard
CHAPTER 2 God Is Apparently Not Dead: The Obvious, the Emergent, and the Still Unknown in Immigration and Religion	11	(28)
Alex Stepick
CHAPTER 3 "Brought Together upon Our Own Continent": Race, Religion, and Evangelical Nationalism in American Baptist Home Missions, 1865-1900	39	(28)
Derek Chang
CHAPTER 4 Daddy Grace: An Immigrant's Story	67	(12)
Danielle Brune Sigler
CHAPTER 5 Ritual Transformations in Okinawan Immigrant Communities	79	(20)
Ronald Nakasone and Susan Sered
CHAPTER 6 Religion and the Maintenance of Ethnicity among Immigrants: A Comparison of Indian Hindus and Korean Protestants	99	(24)
Pyong Gap Min
CHAPTER 7 Changing Religious Practices among Cambodian Immigrants in Long Beach and Seattle	123	(22)
Thomas J. Douglas
CHAPTER 8 Religion and Transnational Migration in the New Chinatown	145	(20)
Kenneth J. Guest
CHAPTER 9 The Protestant Ethic and the Dis-Spirit of Vodou	165	(24)
Karen Richman
CHAPTER 10 Structural and Cultural Hybrids: Religious Congregational Life and Public Participation of Mexicans in the New South	189	(30)
Marie Friedmann Marquardt
CHAPTER 11 Historicizing and Materializing the Study of Religion: The Contribution of Migration Studies	219	(24)
Manuel A. Vásquez
INDEX	243	(14)
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS	257