Social Science Research Council

Religion, Immigration, and Civic Life in Historical Comparative Perspective

Current Project Members and Paper Titles

Comparing Italian and Mexican Immigrants

Richard Alba, State University of New York at Albany and
Robert Orsi, Harvard University
Passages of Piety: Generational Transitions and the Social and Religious Incorporation of Italian Americans

David Lopez, University of California at Los Angeles
Religion and Culture in the Success of Mexicans in America

Roberto Lint-Sagarena, University of Southern California
Porous Borders: Mexican Immigration and American Culture

Comparing Japanese and Korean Immigrants

Paul Spickard, University of California at Santa Barbara,
Lori Pierce, Wabash College, and
David Yoo, Claremont-McKenna College
Religion and Race: Korean and Japanese American Religions, 1890-1945

Jane Iwamura, University of Southern California
Japanese Americans and the Birth of a New Civil Religion

Sharon Suh, Seattle University
Buddhism, Rhetoric and the Korean American Community: The Adjustment of Korean Buddhist Immigrants to the U.S.

Comparison of Jewish and Arab Muslim Immigrants

Arnold Eisen, Stanford University
Choosing Chosenness in America: The Changing Faces of Judaism

Calvin Goldscheider, Brown University
Immigration and the Transformation of American Jews: Assimilation, Distinctiveness, and Community

Ann Chih Lin, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and
Amaney Jamal, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Muslim, Arab, and American: The Adaptation of Arab Immigrants to American Society

Yvonne Haddad, Georgetown University
Issues of Identity among Muslims in North America

Comparing African-American Migrants and Haitian Immigrants

James Grossman, The Newberry Library and
Albert Raboteau, Princeton University
Black Migration, Religion, and Civic Life

Karen Richman, University of Notre Dame and
Elizabeth McAlister, Wesleyan University
Catholic, Vodou, and Protestant--Being Haitian, Becoming American: Religious Pluralism, Immigrant Incorporation and Transnationalism