Sacred Assemblies and Civic Engagement: How Religion Matters for America's Newest Immigrants

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments — ix 1 Introduction — 1 Part One Religion Matters 2 Purity and Protest: Sectarianism and Immigrant Civic Engagement — 19 3 Locating the Moral Authority of Immigrant Congregations — 37 4 The Moral Projects of Immigrant Congregations — 54 Part Two Sacred Assemblies in Social Contexts 5 “Making It in America”: Occupational and Economic Adaptation in Immigrant Congregations — 73 6 Religion, Education, and Civic Tensions in Immigrant Congregations — 95 7 Marriage Patterns in Immigrant Congregations: Implications for Social Distance and Group Identity — 120 8 Language in Immigrant Congregations: Religious and Civic Considerations — 143 Part Three Civic Engagement 9 Individual Engagement: Citizenship in Immigrant Religions — 173 10 Organizational Engagement: The Ecology of Immigrant Congregations — 194 11 When and How Religion Matters for Immigrant Civic Engagement — 216 vii Appendix A: Research Sites — 233 Appendix B: Sectarianism Coding for Research Sites — 237 Notes — 241 References — 247 Index — 269 Contents viii ...