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Record Nr.

UNINA9910904001203321

Autore

Connor Phillip <1976->

Titolo

Immigrant Faith : Patterns of Immigrant Religion in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe / / Phillip Connor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

9781479858279

1479858277

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Classificazione

REL000000SOC002010

Disciplina

200.86912

Soggetti

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural

RELIGION / General

Immigrants - Religious life - Europe, Western

Immigrants - Religious life - Canada

Immigrants - Religious life - United States

Europe, Western Social conditions 21st century

Canada Social conditions 21st century

United States Social conditions 21st century

Canada Emigration and immigration Religious aspects

United States Emigration and immigration Religious aspects

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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Introducing immigrant faith -- 1. Moving faith -- 2. Changing faith -- 3. Integrating faith -- 4. Transferring faith -- Conclusion. Weaving immigrant faith together -- Methodological appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author

Sommario/riassunto

Immigrant Faith examines trends and patterns relating to religion in the lives ofimmigrants. The volume moves beyond specific studies of particular faiths inparticular immigrant destinations to present the religious lives of immigrantsin the United States, Canada, and Europe on a broad scale. Religion is not merely one aspect among many in immigrant lives. Immigrant faith affects daily interactions, shapes the



future of immigrants intheir destination society, and influences society beyond the immigrantsthemselves. In other words, to understand immigrants, one must understand theirfaith. Drawing on census data and other surveys, including data sources from several countries andstatistical data from thousands of immigrant interviews, the volume provides aconcise overview of immigrant religion. It sheds light on whether religionshapes the choice of destination for migrants, if immigrants are more or lessreligious after migrating, if religious immigrants have an easier adjustment,or if religious migrants tend to fare better or worse economically thannon-religious migrants.Immigrant Faith covers demographic trends from initial migration tosettlement to the transmission of faith to the second generation. It offers theperfect introduction to big picture patterns of immigrant religion for scholarsand students, as well as religious leaders and policy makers.