Sacred Assemblies and Civic Engagement: How Religion Matters for America's New Immigrants
Although America's cultural landscape has become increasingly pluralistic due to the dramatic changes in U.S. immigration laws since 1965, scholarly attention given to religion in the larger field of recent American immigration studies has still remained far from adequate, and the study of the...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2009
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2009, Volume: 70, Issue: 1, Pages: 96-97 |
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| Summary: | Although America's cultural landscape has become increasingly pluralistic due to the dramatic changes in U.S. immigration laws since 1965, scholarly attention given to religion in the larger field of recent American immigration studies has still remained far from adequate, and the study of the role played by immigrant religion in civil society has been largely marginal in the sociology of religion and the sociology of culture. In this context, Sacred Assemblies and Civic Engagement by Kniss and Numrich becomes a much-needed work, bringing our understanding of immigrant religion and its impact on civic engagement to a higher level., With its focus on the Chicago metropolitan region, one of the U.S. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srp008 |