Gatherings in diaspora : religious communities and the new immigration edited by R. Stephen Warner and Judith G. Wittner

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wittner, Judith G.

Warner, R. Stephen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Asians--United States.

South Asians.

Immigrants--Religious life--United States.

Immigrants.

Religious communities--United States.

Religious communities.

Physical Description:

409 p. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, c1998.

Contents:

Becoming American by becoming Hindu: Indian Americans take their place at the multicultural table

From the rivers of Babylon to the valleys of Los Angeles: the exodus and adaptation of Iranian Jews

Santa Eulalia's people in exile: Maya religion, culture, and identity in Los Angeles

The Madonna of 115th street revisited: Vodou and Haitian Catholicism in the age of transnationalism

Born again in East LA: the congregation as border space

The house that Rasta built: church-building and fundamentalism among New York Rastafarians

Structural adaptations in an immigrant Muslim congregation in New York

Caroling with the Keralites: the negotiation of gendered space in an Indian immigrant church

Competing for the second generation: English-language ministry at a Korean Protestant church

Tenacious unity in a contentious community: cultural and religious dynamics in a Chinese Christian church.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives

ISBN:

156639614X (pbk. : alk. paper)

1566396131 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

37625604