Sacred assemblies and civic engagement : how religion matters for America's newest immigrants / / Fred Kniss, Paul D. Numrich.
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 271 p. :; ill., map. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Purity and protest : sectarianism and immigrant civic engagement
- Locating the moral authority of immigrant congregations
- The moral projects of immigrant congregations
- "Making it in America" : occupational and economic adaptation in immigrant congregations
- Religion, education, and civic tensions in immigrant congregations
- Marriage patterns in immigrant congregations : implications for social distance and group identity
- Language in immigrant congregations : religious and civic considerations
- Individual engagement : citizenship in immigrant religions
- Organizational engagement : the ecology of immigrant congregations
- When and how religion matters for immigrant civic engagement.