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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816665603321

Titolo

Sustaining faith traditions : race, ethnicity, and religion among the Latino and Asian American second generation / / edited by Carolyn Chen and Russell Jeung

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2012

ISBN

0-8147-7289-7

0-8147-1737-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ChenCarolyn <1971->

JeungRussell <1962->

Disciplina

200.89/00973

Soggetti

Latin Americans - Religion

Asian Americans - Religion

United States Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Religious primacy -- pt. 2. Racialized religion -- pt. 3. Hybridized ethnoreligion -- pt. 4. Minority religions and family traditioning.

Sommario/riassunto

Over fifty years ago, Will Herberg theorized that future immigrants to the United States would no longer identify themselves through their races or ethnicities, or through the languages and cultures of their home countries. Rather, modern immigrants would base their identities on their religions. The landscape of U.S. immigration has changed dramatically since Herberg first published his theory. Most of today’s immigrants are Asian or Latino, and are thus unable to shed their racial and ethnic identities as rapidly as the Europeans about whom Herberg wrote. And rather than a flexible, labor-based economy hungry for more workers, today’s immigrants find themselves in a post-industrial segmented economy that allows little in the way of class mobility. In this comprehensive anthology contributors draw on ethnography and in-depth interviews to examine the experiences of the new second generation: the children of Asian and Latino immigrants. Covering a diversity of second-generation religious communities including



Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and Jews, the contributors highlight the ways in which race, ethnicity, and religion intersect for new Americans. As the new second generation of Latinos and Asian Americans comes of age, they will not only shape American race relations, but also the face of American religion.