The Making of a Promised Land Religious Responses to Gentrification and Neighborhood Ethnic Diversity

Huang, Weishan

doi:10.1111/j.1939-3881.2008.00038.x

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“…Christian churches can offer a range social and spiritual programs for immigrants (Ley 2008). Unruh and Sider's (2005) typology of church ministry can be adapted to help classify these diverse programs: (a) providing settlement and relief services to meet immediate needs (e.g., Kataoka et al 2006), (b) providing personal development programs to empower immigrants to improve their physical, emotional, intellectual, relational or social status (e.g., Huang 2008), (c) providing community development programs to renew the building blocks of a healthy community (e.g., Gonzalev y Perez 1999), (d) pursuing systemic change activities that attempt to transform unjust political, economic, environmental or cultural systems (e.g., Ng 2004;United Church of Canada 2007), and (e) holding evangelistic activities (e.g., Seim 1999). Congregations can also sponsor immigrants to come to Canada either under the refugee or family reunification class (McKinlay 2008;Mummert and Bach 1992).…”

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Integrating Immigrants into the Life of Canadian Urban Christian Congregations: Findings from a National Survey

Janzen

Chapman

Watson³

2012

Review of Religious Research

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In just one generation the cultural face of Canadian society has been transformed. The relative level of immigration has increased rapidly as has diversity among those immigrants. This article reports on the findings of a national survey that offers a baseline of how and to what extent local Canadian Christian congregations are responding to this cultural diversity. In particular, it explores how churches are integrating immigrants within the life of their local congregations. This article uses a systems change perspective to frame immigrant integration. This perspective emphasizes three requirements for change: vision, structure and processes that promote immigrant integration. Data was collected using an online survey of urban congregations in the nine urban Canadian communities having an immigrant population above the national average (20% foreign-born). Using these data this article explores the full range of immigrant integration efforts from the initial welcome to inclusion into congregational life. It describes the present status of immigrant integration, details reported successes and challenges and notes respondent suggestions for better integration. Results of this survey provide firsttime baseline insights into how a range of urban Christian congregations from across Canada are presently responding to the Canadian immigrant reality.

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Section: Structures That Facilitate Immigrant Integrationmentioning

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Integrating Immigrants into the Life of Canadian Urban Christian Congregations: Findings from a National Survey

Janzen

Chapman

Watson³

2012

Review of Religious Research

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“…We therefore have little in the way of a moveable framework for considering the interplay of religious and restructuring logics. Irrespective of their level of awareness, whether they like it or not, “religious organizations must interact [with gentrification] if they are to participate effectively in urban life” (Huang 2008:442). Again, consider Michael.…”

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City of Man, City of God: The Re‐Urbanization of American Evangelicals

Bielo

2011

City & Society

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I thank the Society for Urban Anthropology for the Anthony Leeds Book Prize. The award gives me special pleasure because I think of myself primarily as an urban anthropologist. I was trained in "peasant studies" as a student of Eric Wolf's in the late 1970s and early 1980s eager to conduct participant-observation fieldwork on the revolutionary movements taking place in Central America in those decades. It was a hopeful - even inspiring - moment in history at my doctoral fieldwork theme/sites: the agrarian reform in the Amerindian Moskitia territory of Sandinista Nicaragua (1979-80, 1984), guerrilla warfare in an FMLN-controlled territory in El Salvador (1981), and farmworker organizing on a United Fruit Company plantation enclave spanning the Costa Rica/Panama Caribbean border (1982-1984). During these exciting years of fieldwork, however, I found myself longing to return to my hometown to conduct ethnography on the same themes that I was witnessing in the countryside of Central America: the political mobilization/demobilization of class struggle in the context of racialized ethnicity and extreme social inequality. Consequently, while writing up my dissertation (Bourgois 1989), I moved to East Harlem two dozen blocks from where I had grown up in New York City to document what I came to call "US inner-city apartheid." That was in March of 1985 and ever since, my work has been primarily dedicated to understanding urban social inequality.

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Images of the urban religious landscape: Gen Z seek out the sacred in the city

Samson

Leichty

2021

Journal of Cultural Geography

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The Making of a Promised Land Religious Responses to Gentrification and Neighborhood Ethnic Diversity

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Integrating Immigrants into the Life of Canadian Urban Christian Congregations: Findings from a National Survey

Integrating Immigrants into the Life of Canadian Urban Christian Congregations: Findings from a National Survey

City of Man, City of God: The Re‐Urbanization of American Evangelicals

Images of the urban religious landscape: Gen Z seek out the sacred in the city

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Integrating Immigrants into the Life of Canadian Urban Christian Congregations: Findings from a National Survey

Integrating Immigrants into the Life of Canadian Urban Christian Congregations: Findings from a National Survey

City of Man, City of God: The Re‐Urbanization of American Evangelicals

Images of the urban religious landscape: Gen Z seek out the sacred in the city

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