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Sacred assemblies and civic engagement : how religion matters for America's newest immigrants /
Immigration to the United States has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of America?s history. Currently, about 40 percent of the nation?s annual population growth comes from the influx of foreign-born individuals and their children. As these new voices enter...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Purity and protest : sectarianism and immigrant civic engagement
- Locating the moral authority of immigrant congregations
- The moral projects of immigrant congregations
- "Making it in America" : occupational and economic adaptation in immigrant congregations
- Religion, education, and civic tensions in immigrant congregations
- Marriage patterns in immigrant congregations : implications for social distance and group identity
- Language in immigrant congregations : religious and civic considerations
- Individual engagement : citizenship in immigrant religions
- Organizational engagement : the ecology of immigrant congregations
- When and how religion matters for immigrant civic engagement.