<i>Religions of Immigrants from India and Pakistan: New Threads in the American Tapestry</i>. Raymond Brady Williams

Albanese, Catherine L.

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“…Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans tend to share Confucian traditions, while the majority of Cambodians and Thais practice Buddhism (Kim 1977;Min 1995;Tran 1988). In addition, a significant proportion of Vietnamese refugees and Filipinos are Catholic, and South Asians follow Hinduism, Islam, and Sikhism (Pido 1986;Williams 1988).…”

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Toward a Theory of Panethnicity: Explaining Asian American Collective Action

Okamoto

2003

Am Sociol Rev

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This analysis extends theoretical models of ethnic boundary formation to account for the shifting and layered nature of ethnic boundaries. It focuses on the underlying structural conditions that facilitate the expansion ofethnic boundaries or the construction of a pan-national identity, and explores how organizing along an ethnic boundary affects collective efforts at the panethnic level. Two processes could be occurring: (I) Competition with other ethnic or racial groups could lead groups with different national origins to engage in collective action based on a pan-national boundary, or (2) occupational segregation could foster pan-national interests and networks that lead groups to participate in pan-national collective action. Using a new longitudinal data set ofcollective action events involving Asian Americans, the analyses indicate that the segregation ofAsians as a group raises the frequency of pan-national collective action, while the segregation among Asian subgroups depresses the rate ofpan-Asian collective action. The results also show that intragroup competition discourages pan-Asian collective action, and organizing along ethnic lines generally facilitates it. Overall, these findings are consistent with the cultural division oflabor theory, which suggests that segregation processes influence panethnic collective action due to intragroup interaction, common economic interests, and membership in a community of fate.

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Section: The Case Of Asian Americansmentioning

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Toward a Theory of Panethnicity: Explaining Asian American Collective Action

Okamoto

2003

Am Sociol Rev

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“…Some national religions, such as Hinduism in India, are composed of many ethnic and regional groups that practice the religion according to local traditions. In the United States, Hinduism is expanding to include diverse Hindu subtraditions (Kurien 1998;Williams 1988). Hindu temples, like the one we studied in Houston, have members from many states of India.…”

Section: Including Other Peoplesmentioning

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“…Social inclusiveness is occuring even in smaller ethnic religions, or what Williams (1988) calls sectarian religions. For example, Zoroastrianism has been an ethnic religion for people who trace their ancestry to Persia.…”

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“…It is not rare to hear Chinese Buddhists make statements like this: Even Americans are becoming Buddhists, so why don't we Chinese appreciate our own Buddhist tradition? Williams (1988) quotes a study of Hare Krishna in India that points out that not only are Asians flattered by Western devotees' conversion to their religion but their confidence in their own religious beliefs and values is reinforced and legitimized by it.…”

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“…However, compared with earlier immigrants, who came mostly from Judeo-Christian Europe, many of the new immigrants from Asia have brought Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and other religions, and immigrants from South and Central America and some Asian countries have imported distinctive forms and styles of Catholicism and Protestantism. Amid the debate regarding how "new" this new immigration is compared with the "old," the limited but growing literature on religion and the new immigrants shows that religion, both Judeo-Christian and other traditions, continues to play the dual role of facilitating assimilation of its members and preserving ethnicity (Kim and Hurh 1993;Min 1992;Numrich 1996;Warner and Wittner 1998;Williams 1988;F. Yang 1999a).…”

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Transformations in New Immigrant Religions and Their Global Implications

Yang

Ebaugh

2001

Am Sociol Rev

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Immigrant religious communities in the United States are undergoing profound transformations. Three processes of change occurring in new immigrant religions are described and analyzed: (I) adopting the congregational form in organizational structure and ritual, (2) returning to theological foundations, and (3) reaching beyond traditional ethnic and religious boundaries to include other peoples. These changes support the “ new paradigm” in the sociology of religion that refutes secularization theories: Internal and external religious pluralism, instead of leading to the decline of religion, encourages institutional and theological transformations that energize and revitalize religions. Moreover, these changes are not merely attributable to Americanization. Rather, these changes have transnational implications for global religious systems—implications that are facilitated by the material and organizational resources that new U.S. immigrants possess.

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Trends in Research: A Literature Review

Nordin

Otterbeck²

2023

IMISCOE Research Series

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In this chapter, we present a literature review ordered as a history of the development of theories on migration and religion, addressing the main works on migration to Europe, adding the influential perspectives developed in relation to migration to North America. As a literature review, it is written in a denser style than the rest of the book; therefore, we end each section with a short summary.

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Religions of Immigrants from India and Pakistan: New Threads in the American Tapestry. Raymond Brady Williams

Cited by 6 publications

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Toward a Theory of Panethnicity: Explaining Asian American Collective Action

Toward a Theory of Panethnicity: Explaining Asian American Collective Action

Transformations in New Immigrant Religions and Their Global Implications

Trends in Research: A Literature Review

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