God Needs No Passport by Helen Levitt
A provocative examination of how new realities of religion and migration are subtly challenging the very definition of what it means to be an American. Sociology professor Levitt argues that immigrants no longer trade one membership card for another but stay close to their home countries, indelibly altering American religion and values with experiences and beliefs imported from Asia, Latin America and Africa. The book is a pointed response to Samuel Huntington's famous clash of civilisations thesis and looks at global religions' organisation for the first time.
"A crucial look at the extraordinarily complex issue of migration in the world today" Jorge G. Castañeda, author of Ex Mex and Utopia Unarmed
"Levitt takes the trouble to listen to immigrants themselves. . . . The book is timely in countering one-dimensional views of both religion and immigration." George Rupp, President, International Rescue Committee
"Levitt puts a human face on the globalization of religion. A wise and indispensable guide to understanding twenty-first-century American society." Mary C. Water, Harvard University
"Levitt takes the trouble to listen to immigrants themselves. . . . The book is timely in countering one-dimensional views of both religion and immigration." George Rupp, President, International Rescue Committee
"Levitt puts a human face on the globalization of religion. A wise and indispensable guide to understanding twenty-first-century American society." Mary C. Water, Harvard University
Peggy Levitt is a professor of sociology at Wellesley College. She is also a research fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. She is the author of God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape (The New Press); The Transnational Villagers; and a co-editor, with Mary Waters, of The Changing Face of Home. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781595584564 |
| ISBN 10 | 1595584560 |
| Title | God Needs No Passport |
| Author | Helen Levitt |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The New Press |
| Year published | 2009-08-21 |
| Number of pages | 270 |
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