Gatherings in Diaspora: Religious Communities and the New Immigration

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CONTENTS Introduction Immigration and Religious Communities in the United States R. Stephan Warner I Religion and the Negotiation of Identities 1 Becoming American by Becoming Hindu: Indian Americans Take Their Place and the Multicultural Table Prema Kurien 2 From the Rivers of Babylon to the Valleys of Los Angeles: The Exodus and Adaptation of Iranian Jews Shoshanah Feher II Transnational Migrants and Religious Hosts 3 Santa Eulalia's People in Exile: Maya Religion, Culture, and Identity in Los Angeles Nancy J. Wellmeier 4 The Madonna of 115th Street Revisited:L Vodou and Haitian Catholicism in the Age of Transnationalism Elizabeth McAlister III Institutional Adaptations 5 Born Again in East LA: The Congregation as Border Space Luis Leon 6 The House That Rasta Built: Church-Building and Fundamentalism Among New York Rastafarians Randal L. Hepner 7 Structural Adaptations in an Immigrant Muslim Congregation in New York Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf IV Internal Differentiation 8 Caroling with the Keralites: The Negotiation of Gendered Space in an Indian Immigrant Church Sheba George 9 Competing for the Second Generation: English-Language Ministry at a Korean Protestant Church Karen J. Chai 10 Tenacious Unity in a Contentious Community: Cultural and Religious Dynamics in a Chinese Christian Church Fenggang Yang Conclusion A Reader Among Fieldworkers Judith G. Wittner Project Director's Acknowledgments About the Contributors and Editors Index