Full Description
Religion has played a crucial role in American immigration history as an institutional resource for migrants' social adaptation, as a map of meaning for interpreting immigration experiences, and as a continuous force for expanding the national ideal of pluralism. To explain these processes the editors of this volume brought together the perspectives of leading scholars of migration and religion. The resulting essays present salient patterns in American immigrants' religious lives, past and present. In comparing the religious experiences of Mexicans and Italians, Japanese and Koreans, Eastern European Jews and Arab Muslims, and African Americans and Haitians, the book clarifies how such processes as incorporation into existing religions, introduction of new faiths, conversion, and diversification have contributed to America's extraordinary religious diversity and add a comprehensive religious dimension to our understanding of America as a nation of immigrants.
Contents
Introduction Richard Alba, Albert J. Raboteau, and Josh DeWind Part I * Passages in Piety Richard Alba and Robert Orsi * Migration and Mexican American Religious Life, 1848-2000 Roberto Lint Saragossa * Whither the Flock? David Lopez Part II * Japanese and Korean Migrations Lori Pierce, Paul Spickard, and David Yoo * Critical Faith Jane Naomi Iwamura 6. Buddhism, Rhetoric, and the Korean American Community Sharon A. Suh Part III * Immigration and the Transformation of American Jews Calvin Goldscheider * Choosing Chosenness in America Arnold Eisen * The Shaping of Arab and Muslim Identity in the United States Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad * Muslim, Arab, and American Ann Chih Lin Part IV * Black Migration, Religion, and Civic Life James Grossman and Albert Raboteau * Catholic, Vodou, and Protestant Elizabeth McAlister and Karen Richman Integrated Bibliography Contributors Index
