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To what country do you belong? What is your religion? The answers to these questions are becoming more complicated just as they are being stressed in these times of international tension. This book examines new US immigrant religious communities in connection with the communities they left behind. Ebaugh and Chafetz ask how new and previously studied immigrant groups communicate with their homeland. They ask how remittances flow between communities, how the culture of the US and sending groups affect one another and how these relations change as the new immigrant groups become more settled.

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Helen Rose Ebaugh, Sociology Professor, University of Houston, received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1975 with specialties in organizational sociology and the sociology of religion. In addition to four books, she has published numerous articles in scholarly journals. She has been a faculty member at the University of Houston since 1973 and routinely teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in sociological theory, the sociology of religion and world religions. Janet Saltzman Chafetz, Professor of Sociology, has been at the University of Houston since 1971. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1969. Her most recent publications include an edited Handbook on the Sociology of Gender (1999), a review of feminist theories in Annual Review of Sociology (1997), and a paper on feminist theory and social change in Current Perspectives in Social Theory (1999). A life-long interest in immigrants occasioned by the fact that all of her grandparents immigrated to the U.S., has finally found professional expression through joining Professor Ebaugh on this project.

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