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- Gatherings In Diaspora: Religious Communities and the New Immigration
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: Temple University Press
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, Hews, 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.
This book explores and analyzes the diverse religious communities of post-1965 diasporas: Christians, Hews, 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.
Table of Contents
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- I Religion and the Negotiation of Identities
- II Transnational Migrants and Religious Hosts
- III Institutional Adaptations
- IV Internal Differentiation
- Conclusion A Reader Among Fieldworkers
- pp. 365-383
- Project Director's Acknowledgments
- pp. 385-387
- About the Contributors and Editors
- pp. 389-390
Additional Information
ISBN
9781439901526
Related ISBN(s)
9781566396134, 9781566396141
MARC Record
OCLC
609834110
Pages
409
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1998