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Religion at the corner of bliss and nirvana : politics, identity, and faith in new migrant communities / edited by Lois Ann Lorentzen ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religious pluralism--United States.
- Religious pluralism.
- Immigrants--Religious life--California--San Francisco Bay Area.
- Immigrants.
- Gay people--Religious life--United States.
- Gay people.
- Religion and culture--United States.
- Religion and culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (406 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Analyzes the role of religion in the civic and political incorporation of new migrants to the United States, especially as religion functions as a site of reistance to cultural assimilation and as a site that facilitates social incorporation.
- Contents:
- Devotional crossings : transgender sex workers, Santisima Muerte, and spiritual solidarity in Guadalajara and San Francisco / Cymene Howe, Susanna Zaraysky, and Lois Ann Lorentzen
- Sexual borderlands : lesbian and gay migration, human rights, and the Metropolitan Community Church / Cymene Howe
- El milagro esta en casa : gender and private and public empowerment in a migrant Pentecostal church / Lois Ann Lorentzen with Rosalina Mira
- Religious organizations in San Francisco Chinatown : sites of acculturation for Chinese immigrant youth / Kevin M. Chun
- Immigrant religious adaptation : Vietnamese American Buddhists at Chua Viet Nam (Vietnamese Buddhist temple) / Hien Duc Do and Mimi Khuc
- Americanizing Philippine churches and Filipinizing American congregations / Joaquin Jay Gonzalez III
- Creating a transnational religious community : the Empress of Heaven and Goddess of The Sea, Tianhou/Mazu, from Beigang to San Francisco / Jonathan H.X. Lee
- Ahora la luz : transnational gangs, the state, and religion / Lois Ann Lorentzen with Luis Enrique Bazan
- Transnational Hetzmek : from Oxkutzcab to San Francisco / Patricia Fortuny Loret de Mola
- The Latino "springtime" of the Catholic Church : lay religious networks and transnationalism from below / Sarah Horton
- We do not bowl alone : cultural and social capital from Filipino faiths / Joaquin Jay Gonzalez III, Andrea Maison, and Dennis Marzan
- Counterhegemony finds place in a hegemon : activism through Filipino-American churches / Joaquin Jay Gonzalez III and Claudine del Rosario.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613065018
- 9781283065016
- 1283065010
- 9780822391166
- 0822391163
- OCLC:
- 456467944
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