View the Table of Contents.
Read the Introduction.

"Provides the most comprehensive coverage of Asian Americans' religious practices, cutting across different ethnic groups, religions, topics, and generations. It should be an essential reader for anyone interested in Asian Americans' religious practices."
--Pyong Gap Min, co-editor of "Religions in Asian America: Building Faith Communities"

a"Asian American Religion" makes an important sociological contribution to our understanding of the nature of the interplay between religious diversity and American culture.a
--Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

"This volume is an important contribution to a much needed recognition of the role of religion in American social and cultural life." --"Multicultural Review"

aThis anthology represents the cutting-edge research on Asian American religions from a social science standpoint.a
--The Journal of Asian Studies.

Asian American Religions brings together some of the most current research on Asian American religions from a social science perspective. The volume focuses on religion in Asian American communities in New York, Houston, Los Angeles, and the Silicon Valley/Bay Area, and it includes a current demographic overview of the various Asian populations across the United States. It also provides information on current trends, such as that Filipino and Korean Americans are the most religiously observant people in America, that over 60 percent of Asian Americans who have a religious identification are Christian, and that one-third of Muslims in the United States are Asian Americans.

Rather than organizing the book around particular ethnic groups or religions, Asian American Religions centers on thematic issues, like symbols and rituals, political boundaries, and generation gaps, in order to highlight the role of Asian American religions in negotiating, accepting, redefining, changing, and creating boundaries in the communities' social life.

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"These two edited volumes bring together a variety of authors to offer a rear combination: they focus on religion in urban America and on particular cities, namely New York City and Chicago...They are necessary reading for anyone who seeks to understand this area."
--"Sociology of Religion"

"In "New York Glory" the usually peripheral becomes foreground, and the core background."
--"Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion"

"The editors are to be encouraged for gathering together original material from some of the most current research on relgions in the city."
--"American Jewish History"

""New York Glory" is a very welcome attempt to describe and to some extent explain and understand the multifaceted and dynamic religious and spiritual landscape of New York City. It is a rich source book of the religious demography of NYC."
--Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies"

"The chief virtue of this collection lies in the fact that it is the first of its kind, the first to explore the diverse religious life of New York City at the turn of the twenty-first century."
--"The Journal of Religion"

Is New York a post-secular city? Massive immigration and cultural changes have created an increasingly complex social landscape in which religious life plays a dynamic role. Yet the magnitude of religion's impact on New York's social life has gone unacknowledged.

New York Glory gathers together for the first time the best research on religion in contemporary New York City. It includes contributors from every major research project on religion in New York to provide a comprehensive look at the current state of religion in the city. Moving beyondbroad surveys into specific case studies of communities and institutions, it provides a window onto the diversity of religious life in New York.

From Italian Catholics, Mormons, Muslims, and Russian Jews to Zen Buddhists, Rastafarians, and Pentecostal Latinas, New York Glory both captures the richness of religious life in New York City and provides an important foundation for our understanding of the current and future shape of religion in America.

View the Table of Contents.
Read the Introduction.

"Provides the most comprehensive coverage of Asian Americans' religious practices, cutting across different ethnic groups, religions, topics, and generations. It should be an essential reader for anyone interested in Asian Americans' religious practices."
--Pyong Gap Min, co-editor of "Religions in Asian America: Building Faith Communities"

a"Asian American Religion" makes an important sociological contribution to our understanding of the nature of the interplay between religious diversity and American culture.a
--Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

"This volume is an important contribution to a much needed recognition of the role of religion in American social and cultural life." --"Multicultural Review"

aThis anthology represents the cutting-edge research on Asian American religions from a social science standpoint.a
--The Journal of Asian Studies.

Asian American Religions brings together some of the most current research on Asian American religions from a social science perspective. The volume focuses on religion in Asian American communities in New York, Houston, Los Angeles, and the Silicon Valley/Bay Area, and it includes a current demographic overview of the various Asian populations across the United States. It also provides information on current trends, such as that Filipino and Korean Americans are the most religiously observant people in America, that over 60 percent of Asian Americans who have a religious identification are Christian, and that one-third of Muslims in the United States are Asian Americans.

Rather than organizing the book around particular ethnic groups or religions, Asian American Religions centers on thematic issues, like symbols and rituals, political boundaries, and generation gaps, in order to highlight the role of Asian American religions in negotiating, accepting, redefining, changing, and creating boundaries in the communities' social life.

Is New York a post-secular city? Massive immigration and cultural changes have created an increasingly complex social landscape in which religious life plays a dynamic role. Yet the magnitude of religion's impact on New York's social life has gone unacknowledged.

New York Glory gathers together for the first time the best research on religion in contemporary New York City. It includes contributors from every major research project on religion in New York to provide a comprehensive look at the current state of religion in the city. Moving beyond broad surveys into specific case studies of communities and institutions, it provides a window onto the diversity of religious life in New York.

From Italian Catholics, Mormons, Muslims, and Russian Jews to Zen Buddhists, Rastafarians, and Pentecostal Latinas, New York Glory both captures the richness of religious life in New York City and provides an important foundation for our understanding of the current and future shape of religion in America.