Gatherings In Diaspora: Religious Communities and the New Immigration

ISBN 10: 156639614X / ISBN 13: 9781566396141

Published by Temple University Press, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gatherings In Diaspora: Religious Communities and the New Immigration
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 156639614X
• ISBN 13: 9781566396141
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Explores and analyzes the diverse religious communities of post-1965 diasporas: Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Rastafarians, and practitioners of Vodou, from countries such as China, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Iran, Jamaica, Korea, and Mexico.

From the Back Cover

Ethnographies of the newest immigrants to the United States and the religious communities they form

Gatherings in Diaspora brings together the latest chapters in the long-running chronicle of religion and immigration in the American experience. Today, as in the past, people migrating to the United States bring their religions with them, and gathering religiously is one of the ways they make a life here. Their religious identities often mean more to them away from home, in their diaspora, than they did before.

This book explores and analyzes the diverse religious communities of post-1965 diasporas -- Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Rastafarians, and practitioners of Vodou, from countries such as China, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Iran, Jamaica, Korea, and Mexico.

To a greater or lesser extent, immigrants and their offspring adapt their religious institutions to American conditions, and in the process they often interact with religious communities already established here. The religious institutions they build, adapt, remodel, and adopt become worlds unto themselves, congregations where new relations are forged within the community -- between men and women, parents and children, recent arrivals and those longer settled.