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Title:
Religion at the corner of bliss and nirvana : politics, identity, and faith in new migrant communities / edited by Lois Ann Lorentzen ... [et al.]
Publisher:
Duke University Press,
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
xxx, 372 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Religious pluralism--United States.
Immigrants--Religious life--San Francisco Bay Area.--San Francisco Bay Area.
Gays--Religious life--United States.
Religion and culture--United States.
Other Authors:
Lorentzen, Lois Ann, 1952-
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
0822345471 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822345473 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822345285 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822345282 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)318057846
LCCN:
2009012701
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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