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Religion Across Borders: Transnational Immigrant Networks » (1st Edition)

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Authors: Janet Saltzman Chafetz, Janet Saltzman Chafetz, Janet Saltzman Chafetz
ISBN-13: 9780759102262, ISBN-10: 0759102260
Format: Paperback
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Date Published: October 2002
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Janet Saltzman Chafetz

Book Synopsis

Religion Across Borders examines both personal and organizational networks that exist between members in U.S. immigrant religious communities and individuals and religious institutions left behind. Building upon Religion and the New Immigrants (2000)_their previous study of immigrant religious communities in Houston_sociologists Ebaugh and Chafetz ask how religious remittances flow between home and host communities, how these interchanges affect religious practices in both settings, and how influences change over time as new immigrants become settled.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Lessons from American Immigrant Congregations
Ch. 1Introduction1
Ch. 2The Santa Cena of the Luz Del Mundo Church: A Case of Contemporary Transnationalism15
Ch. 3Forty Years of Religion across Borders: Twilight of a Transnational Field?51
Ch. 4Religion and the Process of Migration: A Case Study of a Maya Transnational Community75
Ch. 5Catholicism and Transnational Networks: Three Cases from the Monterrey-Houston Connection93
Ch. 6The Evolution of Remittances from Family to Faith: The Vietnamese Case111
Ch. 7Chinese Christian Transnationalism: Diverse Networks of a Houston Church129
Ch. 8Transnational Religious Networks among New York's Fuzhou Immigrants149
Ch. 9The Variety of Transnational Religious Networks165
Index193
About the Contributors203

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