Immigrant Faith: Patterns of Immigrant Religion in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe Phillip Connor, Ph.D. New York University Press – August 2014 More details and pre-order: http://bit.ly/TxL4us Overview Immigrant Faith examines trends and patterns relating to religion in the lives of immigrants. The volume moves beyond specific studies of particular faiths in particular … New Book: Immigrant Faith: Patterns of Immigrant Religion in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe

Special Issue: Multiple Secularities: Religion and Modernity in the Global Age INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGY November 2013; 28 (6) http://iss.sagepub.com/content/28/6.toc Articles Marian Burchardt, Monika Wohlrab-Sahr, and Ute Wegert ‘Multiple secularities’: Postcolonial variations and guiding ideas in India and South Africa Gudrun Krämer Modern but not secular: Religion, identity and the ordre public in the Arab Middle East … International Sociology Special Issue on ‘Multiple Secularities’

One Family Under God: Immigration Politics and Progressive Religion in America Grace Yukich Oxford University Press 2013 http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199988679.do – Focuses on progressive religious activists, a group that has often been ignored in favor of focusing on conservative religious activists or secular leftists – Focuses on stories of mixed-status immigrant families in danger of being separated … New Book: One Family Under God

From Religious Empires to Secular States State Secularization in Turkey, Iran, and Russia By Birol Baskan Routledge 2014 http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415743518/ In the 1920s and the 1930s, Turkey, Iran and Russia vehemently pursued state-secularizing reforms, but adopted different strategies in doing so. But why do states follow different secularizing strategies? The literature has already shattered the illusion … New Book: From Religious Empires to Secular States