Since its inception, the United States has defined itself as a nation of immigrants and a land of religious freedom. But following September 11, 2001 American openness to immigrants and openness to other beliefs have come into question. In a timely manner, Religion and Immigration provides comparative perspectives on Protestants, Catholics, Muslims and Jews entering the American scene. Will Muslims seek and receive inclusion in ways similar to Catholics and Jews generations before? How will new immigrant populations influence and be influenced by current religious communities? How do overlapping identities of home country, language, class, and ethnicity affect immigrants' sense of their religion? How do the faithful retain their values in a new country of individualism and pluralism? How do religious institutions help immigrants with their physical needs as they are entering a new country? The contributors to Religion and Immigration approach these questions from the perspectives of theology, history, sociology, international studies, political science, and religious studies. A concluding chapter provides results from a pioneering study of immigrants and their religious affiliation. Leading scholars Haddad, Smith, and Esposito have created a valuable text for classes in history, religion or the social sciences or for anyone interested in questions of American religion and immigration.

List of Contributors:

David O'Brien (Holy Cross College); Chester Gillis (Georgetown University); Randall Balmer (Columbia University); Ana Mara Daz-Stevens (Union Theological Seminary); Anthony J. Pinn (Macalester College); Jacob Neusner (University of South Florida); Johnathan D. Sarna (Brandeis University); Alan M. Kraut (American University); Aminah McCloud (DePaul University); M.A. Muqtedar Khan (Adrian College); Ingrid Mattson (Hartford Seminary); Guillermina Jasso, Douglas S. Massey, Mark R. Rosenzweig, and James P. Smith

About The Author(s):

Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad is Professor of history of Islam and Christian-Muslim relations at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She has taught Middle East History and Islamic Studies at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Hartford Seminary, and Colgate University. She is a past president of the Middle East Studies Association. Dr. Haddad's research interest has focused on twentieth century Islamic thought and Muslims in the West. Her numerous publications include Contemporary Islam and the Challenge of History; Muslim Communities in North America; The Islamic Revival; The Muslims of America; Women, Religion and Social Change; Muslims on the Americanization Path?; Muslims in the West: from Sojourners to Citizens; and Muslim Minorities in the West: Visible and Invisible.

Jane I. Smith is Professor of Islamic Studies, and Co-Director of the Macdonald Center for Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary. She has worked extensively on Muslim communities in the United States, Christian theology in relation to Islam, historical relations between Christians and Muslims, and the role and status of women in Islam. Professor Smith is currently the co-editor of The Muslim World, editor of the "Islam" section in the new Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions, and area editor of Women in Islamic Cultures. She has frequently traveled to various regions of the Muslim world and speaks to academic and community groups about Islam and its relationship to the West. Among Professor Smith's most recent publications are Islam in America, Muslim Minorities in the West: Visible and Invisible, and "Islam and Christendom" in The Oxford History of Islam. She is co-director of the Henry Luce Forum in Abrahamic Religions, co-sponsored with the Greenberg Center of the University of Hartford.

John L. Esposito is University Professor and Director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding: History and International Affairs, at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is a past president of the Middle East Studies Association. His publications include the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World; The Oxford History of Islam; Islam: The Straight Path; The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?; The Islamic Revival Since 1988; Islam and Politics; Women in Muslim Family Law; Islam and Democracy; Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations; Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam; Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality; and the forthcoming Islam 101: What Everybody Needs to Know.

**Published by Altamira Press in February 2003
**Paperback edition, 256 pages

Table of Contents

• Introduction

• The Changing Contours of American Religion
  David O'Brien (Holy Cross College)

• American Catholics: Neither Out Far nor In Deep
  Chester Gillis (Georgetown University)

• Crossing the Borders: Evangelicalism and Immigration
  Randall Balmer (Columbia University)

• Colonization and Immigration in the Process of Latino Identification
  Ana Mara Daz-Stevens (Union Theological Seminary)

• Some Praise Jesus and Some Don't: Thoughts on the Complex Nature of African American Religious Identity and Those Who Interpret It.
  Anthony J. Pinn (Macalester College)

• Immigration and Religion in America: The Experience of Judaism
  Jacob Neusner (University of South Florida)

• American Jews in the New Millennium
  Johnathan D. Sarna (Brandeis University)

• "No Matter How Poor and Small the Building": Health Care Issues and the Jewish Immigrant Community
  Alan M. Kraut (American University)

• Islam in America: The Mosaic
  Aminah McCloud (DePaul University)

• Constructing the American Muslim Community
  M.A. Muqtedar Khan (Adrian College)

• How Muslims Use Islamic Paradigms to Define America
  Ingrid Mattson (Hartford Seminary)

• Exploring the Religious Preference of Recent Immigrants to the United States: Evidence from the New Immigration Survey Pilot
  Guillermina Jasso, Douglas S. Massey, Mark R. Rosenzweig, and James P. Smith