Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora
I strongly recommend this theoretically interesting and empirically relevant book to scholars and students as well as people involved in community work and religious groups. In the context of the current debates on relations between the state and religion, it offers a very concrete analysis of the i...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2011
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2011, Volume: 72, Issue: 1, Pages: 112-113 |
| Review of: | Faith makes us live (Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.] : Univ. of California Press, 2009) (Lefebvre, Solange)
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| Summary: | I strongly recommend this theoretically interesting and empirically relevant book to scholars and students as well as people involved in community work and religious groups. In the context of the current debates on relations between the state and religion, it offers a very concrete analysis of the impact of state support on the life of immigrant religious communities in Miami (United States), Montreal (Quebec), and Paris (France). After deciding to focus her doctoral work on the Haitian community, she soon discovered that, for this group of immigrants, religion was both a personal resource and a pillar of social life. In this case at least, religion proved to be good for both community life and social welfare. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srr006 |