Handbook of the Sociology of Religion

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Religion and the New Immigrants Helen Rose Ebaugh Changes in U.S. immigration laws in the past four decades ha ...

226 Helen Rose Ebaugh of the immigrant population. In 1960, for example, the top ten countries accounted for 65 percent of the l ...

Religion and the New Immigrants 227 groups such as women, African Americans, and Hispanics. Again, the relative lack of immigran ...

228 Helen Rose Ebaugh 1918; Dolan 1975; Green 1975; Tomasi 1975; Mohl and Betten 1981; Dolan 1985; Alexander 1987; Papaioannou 1 ...

Religion and the New Immigrants 229 Muslim congregation in Canada, and Yang’s (1999) analysis of several Chinese Chris- tian chu ...

230 Helen Rose Ebaugh largest immigrant points-of-entry cities in the United States, were selected, in addition to the earlier f ...

Religion and the New Immigrants 231 Laotian Buddhists, Indian Hindus, and Greek Orthodox, go to great effort and expense to impo ...

232 Helen Rose Ebaugh Religion and the Incorporation of Immigrants into U.S. Society Immigrants’ congregations also help their a ...

Religion and the New Immigrants 233 United States, following the model of the majority Protestant/Catholic faiths (Warner 1994, ...

234 Helen Rose Ebaugh Language usage in immigrant congregations is often a highly contested issue and one that poses dilemmas fo ...

Religion and the New Immigrants 235 most immigrant congregations, with the exception of evangelical Christian churches that tend ...

236 Helen Rose Ebaugh serving ethnic foods for social events both at the central religious site and at home for religiously conn ...

Religion and the New Immigrants 237 the study of transnational religious communities to other immigrant groups in Boston (e.g., ...

238 Helen Rose Ebaugh by discerning patterns of religious adaptation, we can develop generalizations that go beyond endless desc ...

Religion and the New Immigrants 239 fellow immigrants while they develop informal social ties that facilitate their settlement i ...

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN A Journey of the “Straight Way” or the “Roundabout Path” Jewish Identity in the United States and Israel Arnold ...

Jewish Identity in the United States and Israel 241 and the Americas.^3 We begin with a review of the evolution of Jewish identi ...

242 Arnold Dashefsky, Bernard Lazerwitz, Ephraim Tabory CONCEPTUALIZATION OF JEWISH IDENTITY Identity and Identification Identit ...

Jewish Identity in the United States and Israel 243 had sought to register his children as Jews by nationalitybut without any re ...

244 Arnold Dashefsky, Bernard Lazerwitz, Ephraim Tabory INTERGROUP RELATIONS AND ANTISEMITISM The traditional sociological appro ...