Religion and the New Immigrants Continuities and Adaptations in Immigrant Congregations

by Ebaugh, Helen Rose; Chafetz, Janet Saltzman

• ISBN13: 9780742503908
• ISBN10: 0742503909
• Edition: Illus.
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-18
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

New 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.

Table of Contents

Preface
PART I: TRENDS AND THEMES
Introduction	3	(14)
Hispanic and Asian Immigration Waves in Houston	17	(14)
Nestor Rodriguez
Environmental Impacts: Opportunities and Constraints	31	(18)
Structural Adaptations to the Immigrant Context	49	(22)
Providing for the Needy: Social Services and Immigrant Adaptation	71	(9)
Reproducing Ethnicity	80	(20)
Language: Cause for Unity and Conflict	100	(20)
Passing It On: The Second Generation	120	(14)
Is the Past Prologue to the Future?	134	(17)
PART II: SELECTED CASE STUDIES
Jyothi Hindu Temple: One Religion, Many Practices	151	(12)
Simon Jacob
Pallavi Thakur
Center for Vietnamese Buddhism: Recreating Home	163	(17)
Thuan Huynh
Chinese Gospel Church: The Sinicization of Christianity	180	(16)
Fenggang Yang
St. Mary's Catholic Church: Celebrating Domestic Religion	196	(14)
Kathleen Sullivan
St. Catherine's Catholic Church: One Church, Parallel Congregations	210	(24)
Kathleen Sullivan
Southwest Assembly of God: Whomsoever Will	234	(24)
Patricia Dorsey
St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church: Maturing Through the Generations	258	(15)
Maria V. Gasi
Bibliography	273	(12)
Author Index	285	(3)
Subject Index	288	(8)
About the Contributors	296