Prema Kurien
Biographic Data
| ID | 110505 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Prema Kurien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Prema |
| FAMILY NAME | Kurien |
| SIGNATURE | KURIEN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 140 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Why Don't South Asians in the U.S. Count As “Asian”: Global and Local Factors Shaping Anti‐South Asian Racism in the United States
In a 2020 U.S. survey, more Asian Indians than Chinese indicated that they were worried about post‐Covid‐19 hate crimes. Yet, post‐Covid violence against people of Asian background has been viewed as being directed against “Chinese‐looking” individuals. This is just one example of how South Asians are overlooked in discourses about Asian Americans. This theoretical paper provides an expansion of the racial formation framework to explain this excl…
SSSR Presidential Address: Religion as Social Location-Global and Comparative Perspectives
I argue that scholarship in the social scientific study of religion and its paradigms continue to be focused on the United States and Christianity, particularly on white U.S. Christians. This means that theoretical frameworks in the field tend to be limited and 'parochial,' largely ignoring non-U.S., non-white, and non-Christian contexts. I call for scholars to develop a global and comparative perspective on religion and to also examine its impac…
The Impact of International Migration on Home Churches: The Mar Thoma Syrian Christian Church in India
In The Next Christendom , Philip Jenkins makes the case that the “center of gravity” of global Christianity has swung to the South. This chapter examines how short- and long-term emigration of Indian Christians to the Middle East and the West has had a major impact on traditional Christian churches within home communities in Kerala, India. It focuses on one particular Syrian Christian denomination based in Kerala that now has branches around the …
Majority versus minority religious status and diasporic nationalism: Indian American advocacy organisations
Studies of the homeland‐oriented activism of diasporic groups focus on cases where those who share national origins also share common political interests. But other literature indicates that ethnic majority and minority groups may have different attitudes towards their homelands. This paper examines how majority and minority religious status in the homeland affects the foreign policy activism of immigrant organisations. It also examines how compe…
Race, religion, and the political incorporation of Indian Americans
This paper examines the logic underlying three different patterns of Indian American political mobilization and presents a theoretical examination of how race and religion interact to shape the political incorporation of contemporary immigrants. Indian Americans are becoming politically active around homeland and domestic issues. What is particularly striking about this group is that they have mobilized around a variety of identities in an attemp…
The Impact of International Migration on Home Churches: The Mar Thoma Syrian Christian Church in India
Based on qualitative, multisited research, this article examines the impacts of short- and long-term international migration to the Middle East and the West on the Mar Thoma Syrian Christian demonination of Kerala. Migrants and their foreign-born children have new demands and expectations, and significant financial contributions have led to adjustments in the orientation and functioning of the denomination and its clergy. Large-scale emigration h…
Religion, Social Incorporation, and Civic Engagement: Second-Generation Indian American Christians
Recent studies have shown that participation in religious institutions facilitates the civic incorporation of contemporary immigrants. These studies have focused on either the immigrant generation or on the second generation. This paper contributes to the literature by showing how negotiations and disagreements between generations shape the civic engagement of multigenerational Christian congregations. The research is based on a study of congrega…
Decoupling Religion and Ethnicity: Second-Generation Indian American Christians
Forum: "American Religion and "Whiteness
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Negotiating Ethnicity: Second-Generation South Asian Americans Traverse a Transnational World
Introduction: The impact of immigrants on American institutions
Looks at how immigration in the USA has changed so that by the late 1980s almost three‐quarters of a million legal immigrants were entering the country ever year, and how by the 1980s this had increased to 9 million! Investigates the changing birthrate by which foreign born residents now account for one in five births in the USA. Posits that Islam is the fastest growing religion and that the USA has metamorphosed from being a “Christian” country …
Multiculturalism, Immigrant Religion, and Diasporic Nationalism: The Development of an American Hinduism
Journal Article Multiculturalism, Immigrant Religion, and Diasporic Nationalism: The Development of an American Hinduism Get access Prema Kurien Prema Kurien Syracuse University Direct correspondence to: Prema Kurien, Department of Sociology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 51, Issue 3, 1 August 2004, Pages 362–…
Gendered EthnicityCreating a Hindu Indian Identity in the United States
This chapter centers on the primary role of gender in the creation of ethnic cultures and communities among Hindu Indian immigrants. It begins by showing that gender constructs and relations are modified during immigration and settlement. These are considered crucial to the Hindu American ethnicity that was developed in the United States. The discussion then demonstrates that despite the validity of these two perspectives, each is partial because…
Kaleidoscopic Ethnicity: International Migration and the Reconstruction of Community Identities in India
Ethnicity and International Migration * The Kaleidoscope of Ethnicity: Religion, Status, and Gender * Colonialism and Ethnogenesis * The Middle Eastern Migration from Kerala * Ethnicity and Migration in Veni: Strengthening Solidarity and the Joint Family * Ethnicity and Migration in Cherur: The Decastification of Status * Ethnicity and Migration in Kembu: Strengthening the Nuclear Family and Women * The Ethnic Kaleidoscope and International Migra…
Religion, ethnicity and politics: Hindu and Muslim Indian immigrants in the United States
This article focuses on the political struggles between Hindu and Muslim Indian immigrant groups in the United States over the definition of "Indianness". Hindu Indian American organizations define India as a Hindu society and are strong supporters of the Hindu nationalist movement in India. Muslim Indian American organizations, on the other hand, view India as a multi-religious and multicultural society. They are striving to safeguard India's se…
Gendered Ethnicity: Creating a Hindu Indian Identity in the United States
Based on a study of three Hindu Indian religio-cultural organizations whose members live in and around a metropolitan area in California, this article examines the central role played by gender in the creation of ethnic communities and cultures among Hindu Indian immigrants. Gender relations and constructs are reworked during the course of immigration and settlement and are crucial to the Hindu American ethnicity developed in the United States. T…
Colonialism and ethnogenesis: A study of Kerala, India
Religion, ethnicity and politics: Hindu and Muslim Indian immigrants in the United States
This article focuses on the political struggles between Hindu and Muslim Indian immigrant groups in the United States over the definition of "Indianness". Hindu Indian American organizations define India as a Hindu society and are strong supporters of the Hindu nationalist movement in India. Muslim Indian American organizations, on the other hand, view India as a multi-religious and multicultural society. They are striving to safeguard India's se…
Gendered Ethnicity: Creating a Hindu Indian Identity in the United States
Based on a study of three Hindu Indian religio-cultural organizations whose members live in and around a metropolitan area in California, this article examines the central role played by gender in the creation of ethnic communities and cultures among Hindu Indian immigrants. Gender relations and constructs are reworked during the course of immigration and settlement and are crucial to the Hindu American ethnicity developed in the United States. T…
Decoupling Religion and Ethnicity: Second-Generation Indian American Christians
Multiculturalism, Immigrant Religion, and Diasporic Nationalism: The Development of an American Hinduism
Journal Article Multiculturalism, Immigrant Religion, and Diasporic Nationalism: The Development of an American Hinduism Get access Prema Kurien Prema Kurien Syracuse University Direct correspondence to: Prema Kurien, Department of Sociology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 51, Issue 3, 1 August 2004, Pages 362–…
Why Don't South Asians in the U.S. Count As “Asian”: Global and Local Factors Shaping Anti‐South Asian Racism in the United States
In a 2020 U.S. survey, more Asian Indians than Chinese indicated that they were worried about post‐Covid‐19 hate crimes. Yet, post‐Covid violence against people of Asian background has been viewed as being directed against “Chinese‐looking” individuals. This is just one example of how South Asians are overlooked in discourses about Asian Americans. This theoretical paper provides an expansion of the racial formation framework to explain this excl…
Colonialism and ethnogenesis: A study of Kerala, India
Majority versus minority religious status and diasporic nationalism: Indian American advocacy organisations
Studies of the homeland‐oriented activism of diasporic groups focus on cases where those who share national origins also share common political interests. But other literature indicates that ethnic majority and minority groups may have different attitudes towards their homelands. This paper examines how majority and minority religious status in the homeland affects the foreign policy activism of immigrant organisations. It also examines how compe…
Forum: "American Religion and "Whiteness
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Religion, Social Incorporation, and Civic Engagement: Second-Generation Indian American Christians
Recent studies have shown that participation in religious institutions facilitates the civic incorporation of contemporary immigrants. These studies have focused on either the immigrant generation or on the second generation. This paper contributes to the literature by showing how negotiations and disagreements between generations shape the civic engagement of multigenerational Christian congregations. The research is based on a study of congrega…
Race, religion, and the political incorporation of Indian Americans
This paper examines the logic underlying three different patterns of Indian American political mobilization and presents a theoretical examination of how race and religion interact to shape the political incorporation of contemporary immigrants. Indian Americans are becoming politically active around homeland and domestic issues. What is particularly striking about this group is that they have mobilized around a variety of identities in an attemp…
The Impact of International Migration on Home Churches: The Mar Thoma Syrian Christian Church in India
Based on qualitative, multisited research, this article examines the impacts of short- and long-term international migration to the Middle East and the West on the Mar Thoma Syrian Christian demonination of Kerala. Migrants and their foreign-born children have new demands and expectations, and significant financial contributions have led to adjustments in the orientation and functioning of the denomination and its clergy. Large-scale emigration h…
SSSR Presidential Address: Religion as Social Location-Global and Comparative Perspectives
I argue that scholarship in the social scientific study of religion and its paradigms continue to be focused on the United States and Christianity, particularly on white U.S. Christians. This means that theoretical frameworks in the field tend to be limited and 'parochial,' largely ignoring non-U.S., non-white, and non-Christian contexts. I call for scholars to develop a global and comparative perspective on religion and to also examine its impac…
Introduction: The impact of immigrants on American institutions
Looks at how immigration in the USA has changed so that by the late 1980s almost three‐quarters of a million legal immigrants were entering the country ever year, and how by the 1980s this had increased to 9 million! Investigates the changing birthrate by which foreign born residents now account for one in five births in the USA. Posits that Islam is the fastest growing religion and that the USA has metamorphosed from being a “Christian” country …
Colonialism and ethnogenesis: A study of Kerala, India
Gendered Ethnicity: Creating a Hindu Indian Identity in the United States
Based on a study of three Hindu Indian religio-cultural organizations whose members live in and around a metropolitan area in California, this article examines the central role played by gender in the creation of ethnic communities and cultures among Hindu Indian immigrants. Gender relations and constructs are reworked during the course of immigration and settlement and are crucial to the Hindu American ethnicity developed in the United States. T…
Religion, ethnicity and politics: Hindu and Muslim Indian immigrants in the United States
This article focuses on the political struggles between Hindu and Muslim Indian immigrant groups in the United States over the definition of "Indianness". Hindu Indian American organizations define India as a Hindu society and are strong supporters of the Hindu nationalist movement in India. Muslim Indian American organizations, on the other hand, view India as a multi-religious and multicultural society. They are striving to safeguard India's se…
Gendered EthnicityCreating a Hindu Indian Identity in the United States
This chapter centers on the primary role of gender in the creation of ethnic cultures and communities among Hindu Indian immigrants. It begins by showing that gender constructs and relations are modified during immigration and settlement. These are considered crucial to the Hindu American ethnicity that was developed in the United States. The discussion then demonstrates that despite the validity of these two perspectives, each is partial because…
Kaleidoscopic Ethnicity: International Migration and the Reconstruction of Community Identities in India
Ethnicity and International Migration * The Kaleidoscope of Ethnicity: Religion, Status, and Gender * Colonialism and Ethnogenesis * The Middle Eastern Migration from Kerala * Ethnicity and Migration in Veni: Strengthening Solidarity and the Joint Family * Ethnicity and Migration in Cherur: The Decastification of Status * Ethnicity and Migration in Kembu: Strengthening the Nuclear Family and Women * The Ethnic Kaleidoscope and International Migra…
Introduction: The impact of immigrants on American institutions
Looks at how immigration in the USA has changed so that by the late 1980s almost three‐quarters of a million legal immigrants were entering the country ever year, and how by the 1980s this had increased to 9 million! Investigates the changing birthrate by which foreign born residents now account for one in five births in the USA. Posits that Islam is the fastest growing religion and that the USA has metamorphosed from being a “Christian” country …
Multiculturalism, Immigrant Religion, and Diasporic Nationalism: The Development of an American Hinduism
Journal Article Multiculturalism, Immigrant Religion, and Diasporic Nationalism: The Development of an American Hinduism Get access Prema Kurien Prema Kurien Syracuse University Direct correspondence to: Prema Kurien, Department of Sociology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 51, Issue 3, 1 August 2004, Pages 362–…
Negotiating Ethnicity: Second-Generation South Asian Americans Traverse a Transnational World
Forum: "American Religion and "Whiteness
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Decoupling Religion and Ethnicity: Second-Generation Indian American Christians
Religion, Social Incorporation, and Civic Engagement: Second-Generation Indian American Christians
Recent studies have shown that participation in religious institutions facilitates the civic incorporation of contemporary immigrants. These studies have focused on either the immigrant generation or on the second generation. This paper contributes to the literature by showing how negotiations and disagreements between generations shape the civic engagement of multigenerational Christian congregations. The research is based on a study of congrega…
The Impact of International Migration on Home Churches: The Mar Thoma Syrian Christian Church in India
Based on qualitative, multisited research, this article examines the impacts of short- and long-term international migration to the Middle East and the West on the Mar Thoma Syrian Christian demonination of Kerala. Migrants and their foreign-born children have new demands and expectations, and significant financial contributions have led to adjustments in the orientation and functioning of the denomination and its clergy. Large-scale emigration h…
Race, religion, and the political incorporation of Indian Americans
This paper examines the logic underlying three different patterns of Indian American political mobilization and presents a theoretical examination of how race and religion interact to shape the political incorporation of contemporary immigrants. Indian Americans are becoming politically active around homeland and domestic issues. What is particularly striking about this group is that they have mobilized around a variety of identities in an attemp…
Majority versus minority religious status and diasporic nationalism: Indian American advocacy organisations
Studies of the homeland‐oriented activism of diasporic groups focus on cases where those who share national origins also share common political interests. But other literature indicates that ethnic majority and minority groups may have different attitudes towards their homelands. This paper examines how majority and minority religious status in the homeland affects the foreign policy activism of immigrant organisations. It also examines how compe…
The Impact of International Migration on Home Churches: The Mar Thoma Syrian Christian Church in India
In The Next Christendom , Philip Jenkins makes the case that the “center of gravity” of global Christianity has swung to the South. This chapter examines how short- and long-term emigration of Indian Christians to the Middle East and the West has had a major impact on traditional Christian churches within home communities in Kerala, India. It focuses on one particular Syrian Christian denomination based in Kerala that now has branches around the …
SSSR Presidential Address: Religion as Social Location-Global and Comparative Perspectives
I argue that scholarship in the social scientific study of religion and its paradigms continue to be focused on the United States and Christianity, particularly on white U.S. Christians. This means that theoretical frameworks in the field tend to be limited and 'parochial,' largely ignoring non-U.S., non-white, and non-Christian contexts. I call for scholars to develop a global and comparative perspective on religion and to also examine its impac…
Why Don't South Asians in the U.S. Count As “Asian”: Global and Local Factors Shaping Anti‐South Asian Racism in the United States
In a 2020 U.S. survey, more Asian Indians than Chinese indicated that they were worried about post‐Covid‐19 hate crimes. Yet, post‐Covid violence against people of Asian background has been viewed as being directed against “Chinese‐looking” individuals. This is just one example of how South Asians are overlooked in discourses about Asian Americans. This theoretical paper provides an expansion of the racial formation framework to explain this excl…
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Ethnic group (8 works) · Immigration (8 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (6 works)