Affinity, identity, and transcendence: The experience of religious racial integration in diverse congregations

G Marti - Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
How do members of disparate ethnic and racial heritages come to identify and achieve
stable affiliation with multiracial congregations? This article specifies an approach to …

Color-blind racism, color-blind theology, and church practices

M Hearn - Religious Education, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Color-blind racism develops when persons ignore color in people and see them simply as
individuals. As persons of color in racialized societies such as the United States are …

Race-bridging for Christ? Conservative Christians and black-white relations in community life

P Lichterman, PL Carter, M Lamont - … and democracy in America, 2009 - books.google.com
Many people have heard the phrase, sometimes attributed to Martin Luther King Jr., that
from eleven to twelve on a Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in America. Fewer …

ETHNIC, FAMILY, AND SOCIAL CONTEXTUAL INFLUENCES ON ASIAN AMERICAN ADOLESCENTS'RELIGIOSITY

JE Zhai, CE Stokes - Sociological Spectrum, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
In recent years, a number of excellent ethnographic and qualitative studies have signaled a
growing interest among scientists in immigrants and their religious practices. Few large …

Assessing the sociological study of Asian American Christianity

JZ Park - Society of Asian North American Christianity Studies …, 2009 - papers.ssrn.com
In the following I review the extant literature on the sociology of Asian American Christianity
which has grown exponentially since the 1980s. While some studies continue to offer …

Engaging a spirit from the East: Asian American Christians and civic life

SM Cherry - Sociological spectrum, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Asian Americans are one the fastest growing nonwhite populations and nearly half are
Christian. Little is known, however, about the impact of religion on their civic lives beyond …

[图书][B] Where is the village? Pathways to integration for African migrants to the United States

SE Dryden-Peterson - 2009 - search.proquest.com
This dissertation aims to understand African migrants' pathways to integration in the United
States. In particular, it examines how they recreate the ties of community life—“the village” …

[图书][B] American Buddhism: A sociological perspective

BG Smith - 2009 - search.proquest.com
This dissertation examines the relationship between Buddhism and the sociology of religion,
by examining the ways in which the study of American Buddhism can inform the theories of …

[图书][B] An uncertain future: Negotiating multiple identities in a racially and ethnically diverse mosque in the post-9.11 United States

Y Wang - 2009 - search.proquest.com
Based on a careful ethnographic study of a racially and ethnically diverse immigrant mosque
in a mid-sized Midwestern city, I examine the divergent perspectives developed by a group …