ISBN:
9780759103511
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (305 p)
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Ecklund, Elaine Howard Religion and Immigration: Christian Jewish, and Muslim Experiences in the United States. Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Janie I. Smith, John L. Esposito (Eds.). Walnut Creek: Alta Mira Press, 2003, 296 pp, 24.95 (paper) 2005
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Marti, Gerardo [Rezension von: Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck, Religion and Immigration: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Experiences in the United States] 2005
Parallel Title:
Print version Religion and Immigration : Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Experiences in the United States
DDC:
305.6/0973
Keywords:
Immigrants -- Religious life -- United States -- Congresses
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United States -- Religion -- Congresses
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Since its inception, the United States has defined itself as a nation of immigrants and a land of religious freedom. But following September 11, 2001 American openness to immigrants and openness to other beliefs have come into question. In a timely manner, Religion and Immigration provides comparative perspectives on Protestants, Catholics, Muslims and Jews entering the American scene. Will Muslims seek and receive inclusion in ways similar to Catholics and Jews generations before? How will new immigrant populations influence and be influenced by current religious communities? How do overlappi
Description / Table of Contents:
RELIGION AND IMMIGRATION; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Becoming American-Religion, Identity, and Institution Building in the American Mosaic; 1 The Changing Contours of American Religion; 2 American Catholics: Neither out Far nor in Deep; 3 Crossing the Borders: Evangelicalism and Migration; 4 Colonization versus Immigration in the Integration and Identification of Hispanics in the United States; 5 Some Praise Jesus, and Some Don't: Thoughts on the Complex Nature of African American Religious Identity and Those Who Interpret It
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Immigration and Religion in America: The Experience of Judaism7 American Jews in the New Millennium; 8 "No Matter How Poor and Small the Building": Health Care Institutions and the Jewish Immigrant Community; 9 Islam in America: The Mosaic; 10 Constructing the American Muslim Community; 11 How Muslims Use Islamic Paradigms to Define America; 12 Exploring the Religious Preferences of Recent Immigrants to the United States: Evidence from the New Immigrant Survey Pilot; Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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