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1 online resource (ix, 271 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Over fifty years ago, Will Herberg theorized that future immigrants to the United States would no longer identify themselves through their races or ethnicities, or through the languages and cultures of their home countries. Rather, modern immigrants would base their identities on their religions. The landscape of U.S. immigration has changed dramatically since Herberg first published his theory. Most of today's immigrants are Asian or Latino, and are thus unable to shed their racial and ethnic identities as rapidly as the Europeans about whom Herberg wrote. And rather than a flexible, labour-b. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Religious, racial, and ethnic identities of the new second generation / Russell Jeung, Carolyn Chen, Jerry Z. Park -- The diversity-affirming Latino: ethnic options and the ethnic transcendent expression of American Latino religious identity / Gerardo Marti -- Islam is to Catholicism as teflon is to velcro: religion and culture among Muslims and Latinas / R. Stephen Warner, Elise Martel, Rhonda E. Dugan -- Second-generation Asian Americans and Judaism / Helen K. Kim, Noah Leavitt -- Second-generation Latin@ faith institutions and identity formations / Milagros Peña, Edwin I. Hernández -- Latinos and faith-based recovery from gangs / Edward Flores -- Racial insularity and ethnic faith: the emerging Korean American religious elite / Jerry Z. Park -- Second-generation Filipino American faithful: are they "praying and sending"? / Joaquin Jay Gonzalez III -- Second-generation Korean American Christians' communities: congregational hybridity / Sharon Kim, Rebecca Y. Kim -- Second-generation Chinese Americans: the familism of the nonreligious / Russell Jeung -- "I would pay homage, not go all 'bling'": Vietnamese American youth reflect on family and religious life / Linda Ho Peché -- Religion in the lives of second-generation Indian American Hindus / Khyati Y. Joshi. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States -- Religion.
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United States. |
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Religion. |
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Latin Americans -- Religion.
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Latin Americans -- Religion. |
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Latin Americans. |
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Asian Americans -- Religion.
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Asian Americans -- Religion. |
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Multi-User. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books -- Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Chen, Carolyn, 1971- editor.
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Jeung, Russell, 1962- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sustaining faith traditions. New York : New York University Press, ©2012 9780814717356 (DLC) 2011052271 (OCoLC)756592620 |
| ISBN |
9780814717370 electronic book |
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0814717373 electronic book |
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9780814772898 electronic book |
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0814772897 electronic book |
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9780814717356 cloth |
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0814717357 cloth |
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9780814717363 paperback |
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0814717365 paperback |
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