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Title Religion and the new immigrants : continuities and adaptations in immigrant congregations / [edited by] Helen Rose Ebaugh and Janet Saltzman Chafetz
Published Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, [2000]
©2000

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Description 492 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Preface. -- pt. I. Overview ; Introduction Hispanic and Asian immigration waves in Houston / Nestor Rodriguez. -- pt. II. Case Studies. Center for Vietnamese Buddhism: recreating home / Thuan Huynh The Hsi-Nan Chinese Buddhist Temple: seeking to Americanize / Fenggang Yang Chinese Gospel Church: the sinicization of Christianity / Fenggang Yang Houston Korean Ethnic Church: an ethnic enclave / Victoria Hyonchu Kwon St. Mary's Catholic Church: celebrating domestic religion / Kathleen Sullivan Iglesia de Dios: an extended family / Kathleen Sullivan St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church: maturing through the generations / Maria V. Gasi Iglesia Cristiana Evangelica: arriving in the pipeline / David Cook Al-Noor Mosque: strength through unity / Hoda Badr Jyothi Hindu Temple: one religion, many practices / Simon Jacob / Pallavi Thaku The Zoroastrian Center: an ancient faith in diaspora / Yezdi Rustomji Catherine's Catholic Church: one church, parallel congregations / Kathleen Sullivan Southwest Assembly of God: whomsoever will / Patricia Dorsey. -- pt. III. Thematic Issues. Environmental impacts: opportunities and constraints Structural adaptations to the immigrant context Providing for the needy: social services and immigrant adaptation Reproducing ethnicity Language: cause for unity and conflict Passing it on: the second generation Is the Past Prologue to the Future?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-476) and indexes
Subject Immigrants -- Religious life -- United States.
SUBJECT United States -- Emigration and immigration http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140040 -- Religious aspects. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006568
Author Chafetz, Janet Saltzman.
Ebaugh, Helen Rose Fuchs, 1942-
LC no. 99059895
ISBN 0742503895 (alk. paper)
0742503909 (paperback: alk. paper)