Description: New immigrants -- those arriving since the Immigration Reform Act of 1965 -- have forever altered American culture and been profoundly altered in turn. Although the immigrant religious congregations are often a nexus of their negotiation between the old and new, they have received little scholarly attention. Religion and the New Immigrants fills this gap. Growing out of the carefully designed Religion, Ethnicity and the New Immigration Research (RENIR) project, this book combines in-depth studies of thirteen congregations in the Houston area with seven thematic essays looking across the diversity. The congregations range from Vietnamese Buddhist to Greek Orthodox, a Zoroastrian center to a multi-ethnic Assembly of God, presenting an astonishing array of ethnicity and religious practice. Common research questions and the common location of the congregations give the volume a unique comparative focus. Religion and the New Immigrants is an essential reference for scholars of immigration, ethnicity, and American religion.

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