TY - BOOK ID - 96684091 TI - Filipino American Faith in Action : Immigration, Religion, and Civic Engagement PY - 2009 SN - 0814733255 0814731961 081473197X PB - New York, NY : New York University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Filipino Americans KW - Philippine Americans KW - Ethnology KW - Filipinos KW - Religion. KW - Philippines KW - United States KW - San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) KW - Bay Area, San Francisco (Calif.) KW - San Francisco Bay Region (Calif.) KW - San Francisco Region (Calif.) KW - Emigration and immigration. KW - Religious life and customs. KW - Immigration KW - Draws. KW - community. KW - data. KW - immigrant. KW - interviews. KW - large. KW - light. KW - observation. KW - participant. KW - shed. KW - survey. KW - this. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:96684091 AB - Filipinos are now the second largest Asian American immigrant group in the United States, with a population larger than Japanese Americans and Korean Americans combined. Surprisingly, there is little published on Filipino Americans and their religion, or the ways in which their religious traditions may influence the broader culture in which they are becoming established.Filipino American Faith in Action draws on interviews, survey data, and participant observation to shed light on this large immigrant community. It explores Filipino American religious institutions as essential locations for empowerment and civic engagement, illuminating how Filipino spiritual experiences can offer a lens for viewing this migrant community’s social, political, economic, and cultural integration into American life. Gonzalez examines Filipino American church involvement and religious practices in the San Francisco Bay Area and in the Phillipines, showing how Filipino Americans maintain community and ethnic and religious networks, contra assimilation theory, and how they go about sharing their traditions with the larger society. ER -