Religion Across Borders

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.

• Chapter 1 Prologue: Lessons from American Immigrant CongregationsChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 A Mexican Evangelical Church: The Santa Cena of The Luz Del Mundo ChurchChapter 4 An Argentinian Evangelical Church: Twilight of a Transnational Field?Chapter 5 Maya Evangelical Congregations: Religion and the Process of Migration6 Mexican Catholic Congregational Network: Catholicism and Transnational Networks7 Vietnamese Buddhists and Catholics: Evolution of Remittances from Family to Faith8 A Chinese Christian Church: Diverse Transnational Networks of a Houston Church9 New York Chinese Protestants: Transnational Religious Networks among Fuzhou Immigrants10 The Variety of Transnational Religious Networks