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Presents salient patterns in American immigrants' religious lives, past and present

Table of 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

About the Author

Richard Alba is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at City University of New York and is the author of many books, including (with Victor Nee) Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration and Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America. Albert J. Raboteau is Professor of Religion at Princeton University and the author of Slave Religion: The ""Invisible Institution"" in the Antebellum South and Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans. Josh DeWind is Director of the International Migration Program of the Social Science Research Council. He is the co-editor of The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience.

Reviews

"This volume benefits from the rigorous format designed by its distinguished editors. What might initially appear to be an overly rigid structure emerges as a format that enables rich and innovative comparisons of a vast diversity of very singular case studies that are only rarely juxtaposed."
*Choice*

"The volume's findings . . . will certainly compel social scientists to pay greater attention to religion in the context of immigration. Overall, the volume is a significant contribution to the current debates on diaspora."
*Finnish Journal of Ethnicity and Migration*

"This book is particularly valuable for its comparative, historical perspective. It reminds us that today's developments have deep roots and that despite differences, there is much that unites the Asian American and Latino experience. An important contribution to the burgeoning literature on religion and immigration."
*Peggy Levitt,author of God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape*

"This path-breaking volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of immigrant religion in America. By adopting a comparative design that examines immigrant groups today and in the past, this well-focused and highly readable collection sheds a bright new light onand provides often surprising insights intothe way religion has operated as belief system, institution, and community for immigrants both then and now."
*Nancy Foner,author of In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration*