Sacred assemblies and civic engagement [electronic resource] : how religion matters for America's newest immigrants / Fred Kniss, Paul D. Numrich.
Publication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.Description: xi, 271 p. : ill., mapISBN:- 0813541700 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0813541719 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780813541709 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780813541716 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Immigrants -- Religious life -- Illinois -- Chicago Metropolitan Area
- Immigrants -- Illinois -- Chicago Metropolitan Area -- Social conditions
- Religion and culture -- Illinois -- Chicago Metropolitan Area
- Social participation -- Illinois -- Chicago Metropolitan Area
- Chicago Metropolitan Area (Ill.) -- Religion
- 200.86/9120977311 22
- BL2527.C482 K55 2007eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-267) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.