Gatherings In Diaspora: Religious Communities and the New Immigration
by Stephen Warner
Temple University Press, 1998 eISBN: 978-1-4399-0152-6 | Paper: 978-1-56639-614-1 | Cloth: 978-1-56639-613-4 Library of Congress Classification BL632.5.U5G37 1998 Dewey Decimal Classification 305.60973
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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, Jamaica, Korea, and Mexico. The contributors explore how, to a greater or lesser extent, immigrants and their offspring adapt their religious institutions to American conditions, often interacting with religious communities already established. The religious institutions they build, adapt, remodel, and adopt become worlds unto themselves, congregations, where new relations are forged within the community -- between men and women, parents and children, recent arrival and those longer settled.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
R. Stephan Warner, Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is the author of New Wine in Old Wineskins: Evangelicals and Liberals in a Small-Town Church.
Judith G. Wittner is Associate Professor of Sociology and former Director of Women's Studies at Loyola University of Chicago.
REVIEWS
"Historians of a social-scientific bent will appreciate the rhetorical and analytical precision of Gatherings in Diaspora."
—Journal of American Ethnic History
"Seldom do volumes highlight the sources of their inspiration in such a straightforward manner as does Gatherings in Diaspora.... a complicated book with multiple agendas, but careful readers will benefit from the complexity and find a wealth of material for considering some of the most vital questions facing us as sociologists of religion today."
—Sociology of Religion
"...skilfully crafted collection....researchers will find this collection indispensable as a source of data and hypotheses about ethnic identity and religio-ethnic mobilisation in the USA. It will also prove invaluable to teachers of courses on ethnicity, migration and religion."
—Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Introduction
Immigration and Religious Communities in the United States R. Stephan Warner
I Religion and the Negotiation of Identities
1 Becoming American by Becoming Hindu: Indian Americans Take Their Place and the Multicultural Table Prema Kurien
2 From the Rivers of Babylon to the Valleys of Los Angeles: The Exodus and Adaptation of Iranian Jews Shoshanah Feher
II Transnational Migrants and Religious Hosts
3 Santa Eulalia's People in Exile: Maya Religion, Culture, and Identity in Los Angeles Nancy J. Wellmeier
4 The Madonna of 115th Street Revisited:L Vodou and Haitian Catholicism in the Age of Transnationalism Elizabeth McAlister
III Institutional Adaptations
5 Born Again in East LA: The Congregation as Border Space Luis Leon
6 The House That Rasta Built: Church-Building and Fundamentalism Among New York Rastafarians Randal L. Hepner
7 Structural Adaptations in an Immigrant Muslim Congregation in New York Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
IV Internal Differentiation
8 Caroling with the Keralites: The Negotiation of Gendered Space in an Indian Immigrant Church Sheba George
9 Competing for the Second Generation: English-Language Ministry at a Korean Protestant Church Karen J. Chai
10 Tenacious Unity in a Contentious Community: Cultural and Religious Dynamics in a Chinese Christian
Church Fenggang Yang
Conclusion
A Reader Among Fieldworkers Judith G. Wittner
Project Director's Acknowledgments
About the Contributors and Editors
Index
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Gatherings In Diaspora: Religious Communities and the New Immigration
by Stephen Warner
Temple University Press, 1998 eISBN: 978-1-4399-0152-6 Paper: 978-1-56639-614-1 Cloth: 978-1-56639-613-4
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, Jamaica, Korea, and Mexico. The contributors explore how, to a greater or lesser extent, immigrants and their offspring adapt their religious institutions to American conditions, often interacting with religious communities already established. The religious institutions they build, adapt, remodel, and adopt become worlds unto themselves, congregations, where new relations are forged within the community -- between men and women, parents and children, recent arrival and those longer settled.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
R. Stephan Warner, Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is the author of New Wine in Old Wineskins: Evangelicals and Liberals in a Small-Town Church.
Judith G. Wittner is Associate Professor of Sociology and former Director of Women's Studies at Loyola University of Chicago.
REVIEWS
"Historians of a social-scientific bent will appreciate the rhetorical and analytical precision of Gatherings in Diaspora."
—Journal of American Ethnic History
"Seldom do volumes highlight the sources of their inspiration in such a straightforward manner as does Gatherings in Diaspora.... a complicated book with multiple agendas, but careful readers will benefit from the complexity and find a wealth of material for considering some of the most vital questions facing us as sociologists of religion today."
—Sociology of Religion
"...skilfully crafted collection....researchers will find this collection indispensable as a source of data and hypotheses about ethnic identity and religio-ethnic mobilisation in the USA. It will also prove invaluable to teachers of courses on ethnicity, migration and religion."
—Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Introduction
Immigration and Religious Communities in the United States R. Stephan Warner
I Religion and the Negotiation of Identities
1 Becoming American by Becoming Hindu: Indian Americans Take Their Place and the Multicultural Table Prema Kurien
2 From the Rivers of Babylon to the Valleys of Los Angeles: The Exodus and Adaptation of Iranian Jews Shoshanah Feher
II Transnational Migrants and Religious Hosts
3 Santa Eulalia's People in Exile: Maya Religion, Culture, and Identity in Los Angeles Nancy J. Wellmeier
4 The Madonna of 115th Street Revisited:L Vodou and Haitian Catholicism in the Age of Transnationalism Elizabeth McAlister
III Institutional Adaptations
5 Born Again in East LA: The Congregation as Border Space Luis Leon
6 The House That Rasta Built: Church-Building and Fundamentalism Among New York Rastafarians Randal L. Hepner
7 Structural Adaptations in an Immigrant Muslim Congregation in New York Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
IV Internal Differentiation
8 Caroling with the Keralites: The Negotiation of Gendered Space in an Indian Immigrant Church Sheba George
9 Competing for the Second Generation: English-Language Ministry at a Korean Protestant Church Karen J. Chai
10 Tenacious Unity in a Contentious Community: Cultural and Religious Dynamics in a Chinese Christian
Church Fenggang Yang
Conclusion
A Reader Among Fieldworkers Judith G. Wittner
Project Director's Acknowledgments
About the Contributors and Editors
Index
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