Religion at the corner of bliss and nirvana: politics, identity, and faith in new migrant communities
Devotional crossings : transgender sex workers, Santisima Muerte, and spiritual solidarity in Guadalajara and San Francisco / Cymene Howe, Susanna Zaraysky, and Lois Ann Lorentzen -- Sexual borderlands : lesbian and gay migration, human rights, and the Metropolitan Community Church / Cymene Howe --...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Durham London
Duke University Press
2009
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| In: | Year: 2009 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Religious pluralism
/ Multi-cultural society
B USA / Immigration / Religious practice / Homosexual |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Religion and culture United States B Religious Pluralism United States B Religion and culture (United States) B Immigrants Religious life California San Francisco Bay Area B Immigrants Religious life (California) (San Francisco Bay Area) B Gays Religious life (United States) B Gays Religious life United States B Religious Pluralism (United States) |
| Summary: | Devotional crossings : transgender sex workers, Santisima Muerte, and spiritual solidarity in Guadalajara and San Francisco / Cymene Howe, Susanna Zaraysky, and Lois Ann Lorentzen -- Sexual borderlands : lesbian and gay migration, human rights, and the Metropolitan Community Church / Cymene Howe -- El milagro está en casa : gender and private and public empowerment in a migrant Pentecostal church / Lois Ann Lorentzen with Rosalina Mira -- Religious organizations in San Francisco Chinatown : sites of acculturation for Chinese immigrant youth / Kevin M. Chun -- Immigrant religious adaptation : Vietnamese American Buddhists at Chua Viet Nam (Vietnamese Buddhist temple) / Hien Duc Do and Mimi Khúc -- Americanizing Philippine churches and Filipinizing American congregations / Joaquin Jay Gonzalez III -- Creating a transnational religious community : the Empress of Heaven and Goddess of The Sea, Tianhou/Mazu, from Beigang to San Francisco / Jonathan H.X. Lee -- Ahora la luz : transnational gangs, the state, and religion / Lois Ann Lorentzen with Luis Enrique Bazan -- Transnational Hetzmek : from Oxkutzcab to San Francisco / Patricia Fortuny Loret de Mola -- The Latino "springtime" of the Catholic Church : lay religious networks and transnationalism from below / Sarah Horton -- We do not bowl alone : cultural and social capital from Filipino faiths / Joaquin Jay Gonzalez III, Andrea Maison, and Dennis Marzan -- Counterhegemony finds place in a hegemon : activism through Filipino-American churches / Joaquin Jay Gonzalez III and Claudine del Rosario |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0822345285 |