Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faith: Haitian Religion in Miami
Based on meticulous ethnographic research, Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faith: Haitian Religion in Miami depicts Haitian religious life in Miami and South Florida, home to one of the largest and most diverse Haitian communities in the United States. Given the primordial role that religion has...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2014
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2014, Volume: 75, Issue: 2, Pages: 340-341 |
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| Summary: | Based on meticulous ethnographic research, Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faith: Haitian Religion in Miami depicts Haitian religious life in Miami and South Florida, home to one of the largest and most diverse Haitian communities in the United States. Given the primordial role that religion has always occupied in Haitians' lives since colonial times to the present day, Rey and Stepick endeavor to provide an in-depth study of the religious faith of the Haitian diaspora in their city of resettlement. They document how their faith contributes to easing the aches and pains associated with relocation and the building of new lives in the host society. Viewed in this perspective, they contend that Haitian immigrant religious beliefs are transnational. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/sru031 |