03741oam 22006494a 450 99624832150331620170816150507.097866120476330-585-37172-51-282-04763-91-4399-0152-X(CKB)1000000000725510(EBL)432892(OCoLC)609834110(SSID)ssj0000160864(PQKBManifestationID)11947001(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000160864(PQKBWorkID)10190705(PQKB)11602069(MiAaPQ)EBC432892(MdBmJHUP)muse15760(EXLCZ)99100000000072551019970904d1998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGatherings In Diasporaedited by R. Stephen Warner and Judith G. WittnerPhiladelphia, PA :Temple University Press,1998.Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE, 2012©1998.1 online resource (417 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-56639-614-X 1-56639-613-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 TransnationalismIII 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 ChurchConclusion A Reader Among FieldworkersProject Director's Acknowledgments; About the Contributors and Editors; IndexGatherings 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, ImmigrantsReligious lifeUnited StatesSouth AsiansUnited StatesReligious communitiesUnited StatesElectronic books. ImmigrantsReligious lifeSouth AsiansReligious communities305.6/0973Wittner Judith G1016832Warner R. Stephen143166MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK996248321503316Gatherings In Diaspora2381252UNISA