P A Kurien
Biographic Data
| ID | 48782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P A Kurien |
| GIVEN NAMES | P A |
| FAMILY NAME | Kurien |
| SIGNATURE | KURIEN P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8933-7173 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 247 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
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…
The Racial Paradigm and Dalit Anti-Caste Activism in the United States
Based on interviews, some field research, and an analysis of online material, this paper focuses on the rights struggles of diasporic Indian caste groups formerly considered 'Untouchable' whose self-chosen descriptor is 'Dalit.' It examines Dalit activism in the United States around caste discrimination in both India and the U.S. The goal of this study is to demonstrate how Dalit American leaders use racial analogies in their international activi…
Indian American versus South Asian American advocacy organisations: Diasporic political activism in the U.S
Why do some diasporic activists gravitate towards ethnic organisations while others mobilise around a panethnic paradigm, and what difference does this make for patterns of activism? A prominent division among secular activists of Indian American background is that some individuals prefer to mobilise as ‘Indian Americans’ while others are active as ‘South Asian Americans.’ There are fundamental differences in the strategies, goals, and broader al…
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…
Culture-free’ religion: New second-generation Muslims and Christians
The turn to ‘pure’ Islam cleansed of the cultures of their parents’ homeland traditions by children of Muslim immigrants in Europe and North America has been widely discussed. Scholars have attributed this behavior to factors particular to younger Muslims in the contemporary period or to the nature of Islam itself. In this article, I challenge these arguments by drawing on research on children of Christian immigrants in the United States who supp…
Women and South Asian Hinduism and Islam: In the subcontinent and the diaspora
This viewpoint essay provides an introduction to the special section, ‘Lived Religions of South Asian Hindu and Muslim Women' and context on the issues for the readers. The section draws on the work of an interdisciplinary, international group and covers a vast swath from return migrant women’s locations within Hinduism and Islam in Bangladesh and India, to their experiences with religion in the U.S. and the Middle East. It also examines alternat…
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 …
Ethnic Church Meets Megachurch: Indian American Christianity in Motion
Shifting U.S. Racial and Ethnic Identities and Sikh American Activism
Prema Kurien, Shifting U.S. Racial and Ethnic Identities and Sikh American Activism, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 5, Immigration and Changing Identities (August 2018), pp. 81-98
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…
Immigration, Community Formation, Political Incorporation, and Why Religion Matters: Migration and Settlement Patterns of the Indian Diaspora
Because of the secularity of sociology, religion remains a relatively marginal field of study and the insights of the sociology of religion are generally ignored or overlooked within other subfields. But religion can be a force that deeply influences personal, community, and national life in nonobvious ways through shaping the social and political structures of society. Consequently, including an analysis of religion as a fundamental factor of so…
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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Religion and the New Immigrants: How Faith Communities Form our Newest Citizens
Beginning around the mid-1990s, the Pew Charitable Trusts funded large, multi-site studies focusing on immigrant religious organizations in seven “gateway cities” in the United States. This book, based on ethnographic studies of twenty religious institutions representing a variety of ethnic groups and religions as well as a survey of 200 more in the Washington, DC, area, is one of them. The authors, Michael Foley and Dean Hoge, locate their proje…
Who Speaks for Indian Americans? Religion, Ethnicity, and Political Formation
In this age of multiculturalism and globalization, the diasporic politics of immigrant and ethnic groups has become a powerful force, affecting their countries of residence and ancestry. Several analysts have noted that the Asian Indian American community is emerging as a powerful political influence in American politics. This article provides a brief overview of the patterns of civic activism of a variety of Indian American groups in the United …
Negotiating Ethnicity: Second-Generation South Asian Americans Traverse a Transnational World
Multiculturalism and "American" Religion: The Case of Hindu Indian Americans
How non-Christian religious groups should be politically recognized within Western multicultural societies has proved to be a pressing contemporary issue. This article examines some ways in which American policies regarding religion and multiculturalism have shaped Hindu Indian American organizations, forms of public expression and activism. Specifically, I look at three examples of the impact of such policies on Hindu Indian Americans representi…
Being Young, Brown, and Hindu: The Identity Struggles of Second-Generation Indian Americans
The "new second generation," the children of post-1965 immigrants, is the focus of scholars who recognize that it is the critical generation who will determine the future patterns of race and ethnicity in the United States. Based on a case study of a Hindu Student Council chapter at "Western University" in California, this article looks at how the attempts by second-generation Indian Americans to deal with issues of race brought many of them to t…
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…
To Be or Not to Be South Asian: Contemporary Indian American Politics
There are two major types of coalitional alliances that ethnic groups have developed in the U.S.: coalitions based on continent of origin and coalitions based on religious affiliation. What are the similarities and differences between the two types of mobilizations and how does each affect the ethnic community and the wider society? My article examines these debates by looking at two ways in which Indian Americans are entering the public sphere i…
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…
Being Young, Brown, and Hindu: The Identity Struggles of Second-Generation Indian Americans
The "new second generation," the children of post-1965 immigrants, is the focus of scholars who recognize that it is the critical generation who will determine the future patterns of race and ethnicity in the United States. Based on a case study of a Hindu Student Council chapter at "Western University" in California, this article looks at how the attempts by second-generation Indian Americans to deal with issues of race brought many of them to t…
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…
To Be or Not to Be South Asian: Contemporary Indian American Politics
There are two major types of coalitional alliances that ethnic groups have developed in the U.S.: coalitions based on continent of origin and coalitions based on religious affiliation. What are the similarities and differences between the two types of mobilizations and how does each affect the ethnic community and the wider society? My article examines these debates by looking at two ways in which Indian Americans are entering the public sphere i…
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–…
Who Speaks for Indian Americans? Religion, Ethnicity, and Political Formation
In this age of multiculturalism and globalization, the diasporic politics of immigrant and ethnic groups has become a powerful force, affecting their countries of residence and ancestry. Several analysts have noted that the Asian Indian American community is emerging as a powerful political influence in American politics. This article provides a brief overview of the patterns of civic activism of a variety of Indian American groups in the United …
Multiculturalism and "American" Religion: The Case of Hindu Indian Americans
How non-Christian religious groups should be politically recognized within Western multicultural societies has proved to be a pressing contemporary issue. This article examines some ways in which American policies regarding religion and multiculturalism have shaped Hindu Indian American organizations, forms of public expression and activism. Specifically, I look at three examples of the impact of such policies on Hindu Indian Americans representi…
Immigration, Community Formation, Political Incorporation, and Why Religion Matters: Migration and Settlement Patterns of the Indian Diaspora
Because of the secularity of sociology, religion remains a relatively marginal field of study and the insights of the sociology of religion are generally ignored or overlooked within other subfields. But religion can be a force that deeply influences personal, community, and national life in nonobvious ways through shaping the social and political structures of society. Consequently, including an analysis of religion as a fundamental factor of so…
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
Shifting U.S. Racial and Ethnic Identities and Sikh American Activism
Prema Kurien, Shifting U.S. Racial and Ethnic Identities and Sikh American Activism, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 5, Immigration and Changing Identities (August 2018), pp. 81-98
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…
Non-economic Bases of Economic Behaviour: The Consumption, Investment and Exchange Patterns of Three Emigrant Communities in Kerala, India
This article takes issue with the rational choice approach that views the economy as an autonomous realm where isolated individuals make maximizing choices in terms of their personal preferences. The argument made is that income generation, consumption and exchange form a holistic complex that must be studied in its unity and that the economy and individual economic behaviour are articulated with a social context. This is demonstrated by evidence…
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
Culture-free’ religion: New second-generation Muslims and Christians
The turn to ‘pure’ Islam cleansed of the cultures of their parents’ homeland traditions by children of Muslim immigrants in Europe and North America has been widely discussed. Scholars have attributed this behavior to factors particular to younger Muslims in the contemporary period or to the nature of Islam itself. In this article, I challenge these arguments by drawing on research on children of Christian immigrants in the United States who supp…
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…
Women and South Asian Hinduism and Islam: In the subcontinent and the diaspora
This viewpoint essay provides an introduction to the special section, ‘Lived Religions of South Asian Hindu and Muslim Women' and context on the issues for the readers. The section draws on the work of an interdisciplinary, international group and covers a vast swath from return migrant women’s locations within Hinduism and Islam in Bangladesh and India, to their experiences with religion in the U.S. and the Middle East. It also examines alternat…
The Racial Paradigm and Dalit Anti-Caste Activism in the United States
Based on interviews, some field research, and an analysis of online material, this paper focuses on the rights struggles of diasporic Indian caste groups formerly considered 'Untouchable' whose self-chosen descriptor is 'Dalit.' It examines Dalit activism in the United States around caste discrimination in both India and the U.S. The goal of this study is to demonstrate how Dalit American leaders use racial analogies in their international activi…
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…
Religion and the New Immigrants: How Faith Communities Form our Newest Citizens
Beginning around the mid-1990s, the Pew Charitable Trusts funded large, multi-site studies focusing on immigrant religious organizations in seven “gateway cities” in the United States. This book, based on ethnographic studies of twenty religious institutions representing a variety of ethnic groups and religions as well as a survey of 200 more in the Washington, DC, area, is one of them. The authors, Michael Foley and Dean Hoge, locate their proje…
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 …
Non-economic Bases of Economic Behaviour: The Consumption, Investment and Exchange Patterns of Three Emigrant Communities in Kerala, India
This article takes issue with the rational choice approach that views the economy as an autonomous realm where isolated individuals make maximizing choices in terms of their personal preferences. The argument made is that income generation, consumption and exchange form a holistic complex that must be studied in its unity and that the economy and individual economic behaviour are articulated with a social context. This is demonstrated by evidence…
Colonialism and ethnogenesis: A study of Kerala, India
Wage Hunters and Gatherers: Search for Work in the Urban and Rural Economy of South Gujarat
Competing Visions of Islam in the United States: A Study of Los Angeles
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…
Negotiating Identities: Women in the Indian Diaspora
This work gives a gendered perspective on how communities conceptualize and indeed actualize the process of reconstruction in a foreign land. Faced with a disjunctive crisis, religion becomes a major symbolic resource in the rebuilding of a community. The community in question is South Asian, and the material representation of their coming together is the Sri Venkateswara temple in Pittsburgh. Clearly positioning herself in the field of women's s…
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…
To Be or Not to Be South Asian: Contemporary Indian American Politics
There are two major types of coalitional alliances that ethnic groups have developed in the U.S.: coalitions based on continent of origin and coalitions based on religious affiliation. What are the similarities and differences between the two types of mobilizations and how does each affect the ethnic community and the wider society? My article examines these debates by looking at two ways in which Indian Americans are entering the public sphere i…
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–…
Being Young, Brown, and Hindu: The Identity Struggles of Second-Generation Indian Americans
The "new second generation," the children of post-1965 immigrants, is the focus of scholars who recognize that it is the critical generation who will determine the future patterns of race and ethnicity in the United States. Based on a case study of a Hindu Student Council chapter at "Western University" in California, this article looks at how the attempts by second-generation Indian Americans to deal with issues of race brought many of them to t…
Negotiating Ethnicity: Second-Generation South Asian Americans Traverse a Transnational World
Multiculturalism and "American" Religion: The Case of Hindu Indian Americans
How non-Christian religious groups should be politically recognized within Western multicultural societies has proved to be a pressing contemporary issue. This article examines some ways in which American policies regarding religion and multiculturalism have shaped Hindu Indian American organizations, forms of public expression and activism. Specifically, I look at three examples of the impact of such policies on Hindu Indian Americans representi…
Who Speaks for Indian Americans? Religion, Ethnicity, and Political Formation
In this age of multiculturalism and globalization, the diasporic politics of immigrant and ethnic groups has become a powerful force, affecting their countries of residence and ancestry. Several analysts have noted that the Asian Indian American community is emerging as a powerful political influence in American politics. This article provides a brief overview of the patterns of civic activism of a variety of Indian American groups in the United …
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 and the New Immigrants: How Faith Communities Form our Newest Citizens
Beginning around the mid-1990s, the Pew Charitable Trusts funded large, multi-site studies focusing on immigrant religious organizations in seven “gateway cities” in the United States. This book, based on ethnographic studies of twenty religious institutions representing a variety of ethnic groups and religions as well as a survey of 200 more in the Washington, DC, area, is one of them. The authors, Michael Foley and Dean Hoge, locate their proje…
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…
Immigration, Community Formation, Political Incorporation, and Why Religion Matters: Migration and Settlement Patterns of the Indian Diaspora
Because of the secularity of sociology, religion remains a relatively marginal field of study and the insights of the sociology of religion are generally ignored or overlooked within other subfields. But religion can be a force that deeply influences personal, community, and national life in nonobvious ways through shaping the social and political structures of society. Consequently, including an analysis of religion as a fundamental factor of so…
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…
Ethnic Church Meets Megachurch: Indian American Christianity in Motion
Shifting U.S. Racial and Ethnic Identities and Sikh American Activism
Prema Kurien, Shifting U.S. Racial and Ethnic Identities and Sikh American Activism, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 5, Immigration and Changing Identities (August 2018), pp. 81-98
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