Sustaining Faith Traditions: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation

Published by New York University Press 2012

Sustaining Faith Traditions

Race, Ethnicity, and Religion among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation

Edited by: Carolyn Chen and Russell Jeung

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814717356.001.0001

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About this book

Over fifty years ago, Will Herberg theorized that future immigrants to the United States would no longer identify themselves through their races or ethnicities, or through the languages and cultures of their home countries. Rather, modern immigrants would base their identities on their religions.

The landscape of U.S. immigration has changed dramatically since Herberg first published his theory. Most of today’s immigrants are Asian or Latino, and are thus unable to shed their racial and ethnic identities as rapidly as the Europeans about whom Herberg wrote. And rather than a flexible, labor-based economy hungry for more workers, today’s immigrants find themselves in a post-industrial segmented economy that allows little in the way of class mobility.

In this comprehensive anthology contributors draw on ethnography and in-depth interviews to examine the experiences of the new second generation: the children of Asian and Latino immigrants. Covering a diversity of second-generation religious communities including Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and Jews, the contributors highlight the ways in which race, ethnicity, and religion intersect for new Americans. As the new second generation of Latinos and Asian Americans comes of age, they will not only shape American race relations, but also the face of American religion.

Author / Editor information

Chen Carolyn :

Carolyn Chen is Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL). She is the author of Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience.Jeung Russell :

Russell Jeung is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Faithful Generations: Race and New Asian American Churches, as well as co-producer of the video documentary The Oak Park Story.

Reviews

Min Zhou,Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies, UCLA, and author of Contemporary Chinese America:
Sustaining Faith Traditions includes an impressive array of new studies examining how race, ethnicity, and religion permeate the lives of second-generation Asian and Latino immigrants. Taken as whole, the collection shows how diverse faith traditions transform 21st-century America, offering a nuanced understanding of ethnoreligious hybridity and racialism.

Jennifer L. Le:
This book is particularly suited for scholars of immigrant religion, as well as those of racial and ethnic identity, as it increases the understanding of the complexity of race, ethnicity, and religion for second generation immigrant communities. It is a well-written and organized volume...provides empirical research from leaders in the subfield of immigrant religion.

Philip Conner:
a well cited book for immigrant religion scholarship

Paul Spickard ,University of California, Santa Barbara:
A generation of scholars has arisen that makes clear the complex, shifting, but organic links between religion and racial and ethnic identities. Sustaining Faith Traditionsdemonstrates that the sociology of religion is alive, well, and relevant in today's America. Casting off the simplistic assimilation theories of earlier scholars, they chart a sophisticated course among race, religion, class, and context to explain the experiences, affiliations, and identities of second-generation Americans. In vivid ethnographic and interview studies, the contributing authors take you inside houses of worship, families, and communities. They illuminate how second-generation Korean, Arab, Mexican, Chinese, Filipino, and Jewish Americans live their religions and experience their identities. Students of religion, immigration, multiculturalism, and ethnic identity will want to read this book.

Carolina Ivanescu:
[T]he volume presents in rich empirical detail the way religion remains important in many different ways for Latino and Asian second-generation migrants in the USA. Sustaining Faith Traditionsallows us a glimpse into the ways in which the needs of migrant groups change over time and the role religion can play in their life, thus reaffirming its importance.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Chapter 1. Introduction Religious, Racial, and Ethnic Identities of the New Second Generation Russell Jeung, Carolyn Chen and Jerry Z. Park Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Religious Primacy
Chapter 2. The Diversity-Affirming Latino Ethnic Options and the Ethnic Transcendent Expression of American Latino Religious Identity Gerardo Marti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Chapter 3. Islam Is to Catholicism as Teflon Is to Velcro Religion and Culture among Muslims and Latinas R. Stephen Warner, Elise Martel and Rhonda E. Dugan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
Chapter 4. Second-Generation Asian Americans and Judaism Helen K. Kim and Noah Leavitt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Part II. Racialized Religion
Chapter 5. Second-Generation Latin@ Faith Institutions and Identity Formations Milagros Peña and Edwin I. Hernández Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Chapter 6. Latinos and Faith-Based Recovery from Gangs Edward Flores Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Part III. Hybridized Ethnoreligion
Chapter 7. Racial Insularity and Ethnic Faith The Emerging Korean American Religious Elite Jerry Z. Park Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Chapter 8. Second-Generation Filipino American Faithful Are They “Praying and Sending”? Joaquin Jay Gonzalez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Chapter 9. Second-Generation Korean American Christians’ Communities Congregational Hybridity Sharon Kim and Rebecca Y. Kim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
Part IV. Minority Religions and Family Traditioning
Chapter 10. Second-Generation Chinese Americans The Familism of the Nonreligious Russell Jeung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Chapter 11. “I Would Pay Homage, Not Go All ‘Bling’” Vietnamese American Youth Reflect on Family and Religious Life Linda Ho Peché Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
Chapter 12. Religion in the Lives of Second-Generation Indian American Hindus Khyati Y. Joshi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
About the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263

Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

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Published: July 6, 2012
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