Immigrants and change / Roger Sherman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sherman, Roger, 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Religious life.

Immigrants.

Emigration and immigration--Religious aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Identification (Religion).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (172 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book argues that a religious worldview or a religious subcultural identity as expressed by the theory of Moral Cosmology is only one of many subcultural identities that the immigrant utilizes in their assimilation to a new host environment. It offers two alternative theories - a multiple subcultural identity formulation and the theory of inter-sectionality - to explain changes in immigrant opinions as they transition from immigrant generation, to 1.5 to 2.0 generation. Relying upon data ...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ABSTRACT; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF PLOTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; APPENDIX C.1; APPENDIX C.2; APPENDIX C.3; APPENDIX D.1; APPENDIX D.2; APPENDIX D.3; APPENDIX E.1; APPENDIX E.2; APPENDIX E.3

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 13, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6351-3

OCLC:

883570793