Religion Across Borders Transnational Immigrant Networks

by Chafetz, Janet Saltzman; Cook, David A.; Ebaugh, Helen Rose; Fortuny, Patricia; Guest, Kenneth J.; Ha, Thao; Hagan, Jacqueline Maria; Sandoval, Efren; Yang, Fenggang

• ISBN13: 9780759102255
• ISBN10: 0759102252
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-16
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

Religion Across Borders examines both personal and organizational networks that exist between members in U.S. immigrant religious communities and individuals and religious institutions left behind. Building upon Religion and the New Immigrants (2000)_their previous study of immigrant religious communities in Houston_sociologists Ebaugh and Chafetz ask how religious remittances flow between home and host communities, how these interchanges affect religious practices in both settings, and how influences change over time as new immigrants become settled.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Lessons from American Immigrant Congregations	p. vii
Introduction	p. I
The Santa Cena of the Luz Del Mundo Church: A Case of Contemporary Transnationalism	p. 15
Forty Years of Religion across Borders: Twilight of a Transnational Field?	p. 51
Religion and the Process of Migration: A Case Study of a Maya Transnational Community	p. 75
Catholicism and Transnational Networks: Three Cases from the Monterrey-Houston Connection	p. 93
The Evolution of Remittances from Family to Faith: The Vietnamese Case	p. III
Chinese Christian Transnationalism: Diverse Networks of a Houston Church	p. 129
Transnational Religious Networks among New York's Fuzhou Immigrants	p. 149
The Variety of Transnational Religious Networks	p. 165
Index	p. 193
About the Contributors	p. 203
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