Religion has played a crucial role in American immigration
history as an institutional resource for migrants' social
adaptation, as a map of meaning for interpreting immigration
experiences, and as a continuous force for expanding the national
ideal of pluralism. To explain these processes the editors of this
volume brought together the perspectives of leading scholars of
migration and religion. The resulting essays present salient
patterns in American immigrants' religious lives, past and present.
In comparing the religious experiences of Mexicans and Italians,
Japanese and Koreans, Eastern European Jews and Arab Muslims, and
African Americans and Haitians, the book clarifies how such
processes as incorporation into existing religions, introduction of
new faiths, conversion, and diversification have contributed to
America's extraordinary religious diversity and add a comprehensive
religious dimension to our understanding of America as a nation of
immigrants.
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