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Gatherings in diaspora : religious communities and the new immigration
Title:
Gatherings in diaspora : religious communities and the new immigration
Author:
Warner, R. Stephen.
Publication Information:
Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, [1998]

©1998
Physical Description:
409 pages ; 24 cm
Language:
English
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.
Reading Level:
1410 Lexile.
ISBN:
9781566396134

9781566396141
Format :
Book