{"product_id":"crossing-the-water-and-keeping-the-faith-haitian-religion-in-miami-paperback-softback-9780814777091","title":"Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faith; Haitian Religion in Miami (Paperback \/ softback) 9780814777091","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCrossing the Water and Keeping the Faith\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHaitian Religion in Miami\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTerry Rey (Author), Alex Stepick (Author), Archbishop Thomas Wenski (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780814777091\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 19 August 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.386 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faith is a compelling sociological analysis of Haitian religion in Florida and offers important interventions into the sociology of religion and migration studies more broadly.\" (European Association of Social Anthropologists) \"Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faithsuccessfully locates Catholic, Protestant, and Vodouist religious identities in Haitian Miami and illustrates the diversity of religious places in the diaspora. Rey and Stepicks extensive fieldwork yields vivid anecdotes of faithful persons, sensitive considerations of immigrant struggle and resilience and, to date, the most comprehensive theory of Haitian American religious lives.\" (Southern Spaces) \"[A]n informative book that should be read by everyone interested in Haitian immigrant religion. Rey and Stepick have successfully managed to describe and untangle the intricacies of the religious practices of a major immigrant group in the United States. Moreover, they have skillfully removedthe superstitious and evil dimension that is often attached to Haitian religions\" (Sociology of Religion) \"Crossing the Waterdemonstrates many strengths and is a valuable contribution to a nuanced and sensitive understanding of the Haitian religion experience on both sides of the water. Its rich ethnographic, historical, and demographic information, along with an apt engagement with and critique of the rational choice and microeconomic theories of religion result in a book that is at once useful to a wide swath of scholars as well as quite and enjoyable read.\" (Review of Religious Research) \"Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faithstreatment of Haitian religion will be of value to scholars and students interested in Diaspora religions and sociology\/anthropology of religion.\" (Religious Studies Review) \"Conjoining historical method with rich ethnographical material, Rey and Stepick offer a holistic view of Haitian religion in Miami. Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faiths treatment of Haitian religion will be of value to scholars and students interested in Diaspora religions and sociology\/anthropology of religion.\" (Religion Studies Review) \"The authors are not anthropologists but rather professors of religion and of sociology, respectively, and their text does not quite read like anthropology, but I think we can concur that their portraits of three different yet linked Haitian religions, in Haiti and translocally, unified by a religious collusio are valuable to anthropology and suggest paths of research and analysis for the future.\" - Jack David Eller (Anthropology Review Database) \"A monumental scholarly achievement by two excellent scholars of the three main religions in Haiti and its diaspora: Catholicism, Protestantism, and Vodou. Because of its breadthcovering all three religions of Haitiand the length of time it coversdecadesno one will be able to teach or write about Haitian and\/or Caribbean religion without citing this work.\" - Margarita A. Mooney,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill \"This outstanding book is the first comprehensive overview of the rise and existing triangular relations between the Roman Catholic, Protestant and Vodou communities among Haitians in Miami, Florida. The authors let their subjects speak and reveal the importance these religious traditions play in Haitians transnational experiences. This volume should be of interest to a general readership and is especially of vital importance to anthropologists, sociologists, theologians and historians of American religion.\" - Leslie Desmangles,Trinity College\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning in the late 1970s and early 1980s,\u003cbr\u003e significant numbers of Haitian immigrants began to arrive and settle in Miami.\u003cbr\u003e Overcoming some of the most foreboding obstacles ever to face immigrants in\u003cbr\u003e America, they, their children, and now their grandchildren, as well as more\u003cbr\u003e recently arriving immigrants from Haiti, have diversified socioeconomically.\u003cbr\u003e Together, they have made South Florida home to the largest population of\u003cbr\u003e native-born Haitians and diasporic Haitians outside of the Caribbean and one of\u003cbr\u003e the most significant Caribbean immigrant communities in the world. Religion has\u003cbr\u003e played a central role in making all of this happen. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faith is a historical and\u003cbr\u003e ethnographic study of Haitian religion in immigrant communities, based on\u003cbr\u003e fieldwork in both Miami and Haiti, as well as extensive archival research.\u003cbr\u003e Where many studies of Haitian religion limit themselves to one faith, Rey and\u003cbr\u003e Stepick explore Catholicism, Protestantism, and Vodou in conversation with one\u003cbr\u003e another, suggesting that despite the differences between these practices, the\u003cbr\u003e three faiths ultimately create a sense of unity, fulfillment, and self-worth in\u003cbr\u003e Haitian communities. This meticulously researched and vibrantly written book\u003cbr\u003e contributes to the growing body of literature on religion among new immigrants,\u003cbr\u003e as well as providing a rich exploration of Haitian faith communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52569966117144,"sku":"9780814777091","price":24.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/crossing-the-water-and-keeping-the-faith-haitian-religion-in-miami-paperback-softback-9780814777091","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}