Religion and the New Immigrants: Continuities and Adaptations in Immigrant Congregations [Paperback]

New immigrants-those arriving since the Immigration Reform Act of 1965-have forever altered American culture and have been profoundly altered in turn. Although the religious congregations they form are often a nexus of their negotiation between the old and new, they have received little scholarly attention.Religion and the New Immigrantsfills this gap. Growing out of the carefully designed Religion, Ethnicity and the New Immigration Research project,Religion and the New Immigrantscombines in-depth studies of thirteen congregations in the Houston area with seven thematic essays looking across their diversity. The congregations range from Vietnamese Buddhist to Greek Orthodox, a Zoroastrian center to a multi-ethnic Assembly of God, presenting an astonishing array of ethnicity and religious practice. Common research questions and the common location of the congregations give the volume a unique comparative focus.Religion and the New Immigrantsis an essential reference for scholars of immigration, ethnicity, and American religion.Helen Rose Ebaugh, Sociology Professor, University of Houston, received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1975 with specialties in organizational sociology and the sociology of religion. In addition to four books, she has published numerous articles in scholarly journals. She has been a faculty member at the University of Houston since 1973 and routinely teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in sociological theory, the sociology of religion and world religions. Janet Saltzman Chafetz, Professor of Sociology, has been at the University of Houston since 1971. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1969. Her most recent publications include an editedHandbook on the Sociology of Gender(1999), a review of feminist theories inAnnual Review of Sociology(1997), and a paper on feminist theory and social change inCurrent Perspectives in Social Theory(1999). A life-long intl