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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464559303321

Autore

Sherman Roger <1958->

Titolo

Immigrants and change / / Roger Sherman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-4438-6351-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (172 p.)

Disciplina

200.8691

Soggetti

Immigrants - Religious life

Emigration and immigration - Religious aspects

Identification (Religion)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ABSTRACT; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF PLOTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; APPENDIX C.1; APPENDIX C.2; APPENDIX C.3; APPENDIX D.1; APPENDIX D.2; APPENDIX D.3; APPENDIX E.1; APPENDIX E.2; APPENDIX E.3

Sommario/riassunto

This book argues that a religious worldview or a religious subcultural identity as expressed by the theory of Moral Cosmology is only one of many subcultural identities that the immigrant utilizes in their assimilation to a new host environment. It offers two alternative theories - a multiple subcultural identity formulation and the theory of inter-sectionality - to explain changes in immigrant opinions as they transition from immigrant generation, to 1.5 to 2.0 generation. Relying upon data ...