essay
Maintaining the faith of the fathers: dilemmas of religious identity in the Christian and Muslim Arab-American communities
development of Arab-American identity • Ann Arbor • Published In 1994 • Pages: 61-64
By: Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the Arab-American community in the United States from about the 1870s to the 1980s. Although details of the early immigration patterns are given, as well as data on Arab nationalism and ethnicity, the primary focus of this document is on the maintenance of the faith of both Christian and Muslim Arabs as they assimilate or attempt to assimilate into mainstream American society.without wholly losing their own ethnic identity. The article also discusses the variety of changes that have taken place in Arab-American society since the arrival of the first immigrants in the 1870s and the ways in which these changes have affected their sense of identity.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Sociocultural trends
- Cultural identity and pride
- Ethnic stratification
- Pressure politics
- Congregations
- Religious denominations
- Ethnosociology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Arab Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1870s - 1980s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 94015616
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Arab Americans