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Religion has played a crucial role in American immigration history as an institutional resource for migrants' social adaptation, as a map of meaning for interpreting immigration experiences, and as a continuous force for expanding the national ideal of pluralism. To explain these processes the editors of this volume brought together the perspectives of leading scholars of migration and religion. The resulting essays present salient patterns in American immigrants' religious lives, past and present. In comparing the religious experiences of Mexicans and Italians, Japanese and Koreans, Eastern European Jews and Arab Muslims, and African Americans and Haitians, the book clarifies how such processes as incorporation into existing religions, introduction of new faiths, conversion, and diversification have contributed to America's extraordinary religious diversity and add a comprehensive religious dimension to our understanding of America as a nation of immigrants.
Religion has played a crucial role in American immigration history as an institutional resource for migrants' social adaptation, as a map of meaning for interpreting immigration experiences, and as a continuous force for expanding the national ideal of pluralism. To explain these processes the editors of this volume brought together the perspectives of leading scholars of migration and religion. The resulting essays present salient patterns in American immigrants' religious lives, past and present. In comparing the religious experiences of Mexicans and Italians, Japanese and Koreans, Eastern European Jews and Arab Muslims, and African Americans and Haitians, the book clarifies how such processes as incorporation into existing religions, introduction of new faiths, conversion, and diversification have contributed to America's extraordinary religious diversity and add a comprehensive religious dimension to our understanding of America as a nation of immigrants.
Presents salient patterns in American immigrants' religious lives, past and present
Introduction Richard Alba, Albert J. Raboteau, and Josh DeWind Part I * Passages in Piety Richard Alba and Robert Orsi * Migration and Mexican American Religious Life, 1848-2000 Roberto Lint Saragossa * Whither the Flock? David Lopez Part II * Japanese and Korean Migrations Lori Pierce, Paul Spickard, and David Yoo * Critical Faith Jane Naomi Iwamura 6. Buddhism, Rhetoric, and the Korean American Community Sharon A. Suh Part III * Immigration and the Transformation of American Jews Calvin Goldscheider * Choosing Chosenness in America Arnold Eisen * The Shaping of Arab and Muslim Identity in the United States Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad * Muslim, Arab, and American Ann Chih Lin Part IV * Black Migration, Religion, and Civic Life James Grossman and Albert Raboteau * Catholic, Vodou, and Protestant Elizabeth McAlister and Karen Richman Integrated Bibliography Contributors Index
Richard Alba is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at City University of New York and is the author of many books, including (with Victor Nee) Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration and Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America. Albert J. Raboteau is Professor of Religion at Princeton University and the author of Slave Religion: The ""Invisible Institution"" in the Antebellum South and Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans. Josh DeWind is Director of the International Migration Program of the Social Science Research Council. He is the co-editor of The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience.
"This volume benefits from the rigorous format designed by its
distinguished editors. What might initially appear to be an overly
rigid structure emerges as a format that enables rich and
innovative comparisons of a vast diversity of very singular case
studies that are only rarely juxtaposed."
*Choice*
"The volume's findings . . . will certainly compel social
scientists to pay greater attention to religion in the context of
immigration. Overall, the volume is a significant contribution to
the current debates on diaspora."
*Finnish Journal of Ethnicity and Migration*
"This book is particularly valuable for its comparative, historical
perspective. It reminds us that today's developments have deep
roots and that despite differences, there is much that unites the
Asian American and Latino experience. An important contribution to
the burgeoning literature on religion and immigration."
*Peggy Levitt,author of God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the
Changing American Religious Landscape*
"This path-breaking volume makes a major contribution to our
understanding of immigrant religion in America. By adopting a
comparative design that examines immigrant groups today and in the
past, this well-focused and highly readable collection sheds a
bright new light onand provides often surprising insights intothe
way religion has operated as belief system, institution, and
community for immigrants both then and now."
*Nancy Foner,author of In a New Land: A Comparative View of
Immigration*
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