Gatherings In Diaspora / edited by R. Stephen Warner and Judith G. Wittner

• Record Nr.: UNISA996248321503316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, PA : , : Temple University Press, , 1998; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2012; ©1998
• ISBN: 9786612047633; 0-585-37172-5; 1-282-04763-9; 1-4399-0152-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (417 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): WittnerJudith G; WarnerR. Stephen
• Disciplina: 305.6/0973
• Soggetti: Immigrants - Religious life - United States; South Asians - United States; Religious communities - United States; Electronic books.
• 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: Contents; Introduction Immigration and Religious Communities in the United States; I Religion and the Negotiation of Identities; I Becoming American by Becoming Hindu: Indian Americans Take Their Place at the Multicultural Table; 2 From the Rivers of Babylon to the Valleys of Los Angeles: The Exodus and Adaptation of Iranian Jews; II Transnational Migrants and Religious Hosts; 3 Santa Eulalia's People in Exile: Maya Religion, Culture, and Identity in Los Angeles; 4 The Madonna of 115th Street Revisited: Vodou and Haitian Catholicism in the Age of Transnationalism; III Institutional Adaptations5 Born Again in East LA: The Congregation as Border Space; 6 The House That Rasta Built: Church-Building and Fundamentalism Among New York Rastafarians; 7 Structural Adaptations in an Immigrant Muslim Congregation in New York; IV Internal Differentiation; 8 Caroling with the Keralites: The Negotiation ; of Gendered Space in an Indian Immigrant Church; 9 Competing for the Second Generation: English-Language Ministry at a Korean Protestant Church; 10 Tenacious Unity in a Contentious Community: Cultural and Religious Dynamics in a Chinese Christian Church; Conclusion A Reader Among FieldworkersProject Director's Acknowledgments; About the Contributors and Editors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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,