A01=Margarita Mooney
anthropology
assimilation
Author_Margarita Mooney
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catholic
catholic immigrants
catholicism
comparative religion
diaspora
emigrants
emigration
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faith
government
haiti
haitian catholic
haitian immigrants
immigrant experience
immigrants
immigration
immigration studies
ministry
religion
religious faith
religious studies
sociology
world religion
Product details
- ISBN 9780520260368
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Aug 2009
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Based on fieldwork in Haiti and in three cities of the Haitian diaspora - Miami, Montreal, and Paris - this study offers a vivid portrait of the power of faith for immigrants. Drawing on extensive interviews and including rich details of everyday life, Margarita Mooney explores the struggles and joys of Haitian Catholics in these three very different cities. She finds that religious narratives, especially those about transformation and redemption, provide real meaning and hope in what are often difficult conditions. However, Mooney also finds that successful assimilation into the larger society varies from country to country, having less to do with these private religious beliefs than on cooperation between religious and government leaders. In the United States, the Catholic Church is able to offer services and advocacy that help immigrants succeed, but it is not able to do the same in France or Canada.
Presenting a powerful picture of traditional Catholic piety that overturns many assumptions about Vodou practice in Haitian Catholicism, this work also provides a groundbreaking comparative perspective on how immigrants' experiences and opportunities vary greatly across different nations.
Margarita A. Mooney is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Faculty Fellow of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
