Sacred Assemblies and Civic Engagement : : How Religion Matters for America's Newest Immigrants / / Fred Kniss, Paul D Numrich.
Immigration to the United States has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of America's history. Currently, about 40 percent of the nation's annual population growth comes from the influx of foreign-born individuals and their children. As these new vo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2007] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- PART ONE. RELIGION MATTERS
- 2. Purity and Protest: Sectarianism and Immigrant Civic Engagement
- 3. Locating the Moral Authority of Immigrant Congregations
- 4. The Moral Projects of Immigrant Congregations
- PART TWO. SACRED ASSEMBLIES IN SOCIAL CONTEXTS
- 5. "Making It in America": Occupational and Economic Adaptation in Immigrant Congregations
- 6. Religion, Education, and Civic Tensions in Immigrant Congregations
- 7. Marriage Patterns in Immigrant Congregations: Implications for Social Distance and Group Identity
- 8. Language in Immigrant Congregations: Religious and Civic Considerations
- PART THREE. CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
- 9. Individual Engagement: Citizenship in Immigrant Religions
- 10. Organizational Engagement: The Ecology of Immigrant Congregations
- 11. When and How Religion Matters for Immigrant Civic Engagement
- Appendix A: Research Sites
- Appendix B: Sectarianism Coding for Research Sites
- Notes
- References
- Index