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Prema Kurien's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology Delhi University

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According to Wikipedia, Prema Ann Kurien is Professor of Sociology at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University. She specializes in the interplay between religion and immigration experiences, with focus on people from India. She has written a number of articles and books on aspects of this subject. Her 2002 book Kaleidoscopic Ethnicity: International Migration and the Reconstruction of Community Identities in India was co-winner of the 2003 Asia/Asian America book award from the American Sociological Association.

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Prema Kurien's Published Works

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Negotiating Ethnicity: Second-Generation South Asian Americans Traverse a Transnational World (2006) (128)
Religion, ethnicity and politics: Hindu and Muslim Indian immigrants in the United States (2001) (93)
Negotiating identities : women in the Indian diaspora (2000) (93)
Multiculturalism, Immigrant Religion, and Diasporic Nationalism: The Development of an American Hinduism (2004) (87)
Religion and the New Immigrants: How Faith Communities Form our Newest Citizens (2009) (80)
Kaleidoscopic Ethnicity: International Migration and the Reconstruction of Community Identities in India (2002) (78)
Gendered Ethnicity (1999) (76)
Being Young, Brown, and Hindu (2005) (71)
Multiculturalism and "American" Religion: The Case of Hindu Indian Americans (2006) (61)
A Place at the Multicultural Table: The Development of an American Hinduism (2007) (56)
To Be or Not to Be South Asian: Contemporary Indian American Politics (2004) (41)
Colonialism and ethnogenesis: A study of Kerala, India (1994) (35)
Competing Visions of Islam in the United States: A Study of Los Angeles (1997) (35)
:Ethnic Routes to Becoming American: Indian Immigrants and the Cultures of Citizenship (2006) (25)
Decoupling Religion and Ethnicity: Second-Generation Indian American Christians (2012) (23)
Immigration, Community Formation, Political Incorporation, and Why Religion Matters: Migration and Settlement Patterns of the Indian Diaspora (2014) (22)
Non‐economic Bases of Economic Behaviour: The Consumption, Investment and Exchange Patterns of Three Emigrant Communities in Kerala, India (1994) (21)
Who Speaks for Indian Americans? Religion, Ethnicity, and Political Formation (2007) (21)
Religion and the New Immigrants: Continuities and Adaptations in Immigrant Congregations (review) (2003) (18)
A Socio-Cultural Perspective on Migration and Economic Development: Middle Eastern Migration from Kerala, India* (2008) (14)
Speaking the Unspeakable: Marital Violence among South Asian Immigrants in the United States.By Margaret Abraham. Rutgers University Press, 2000. 234 pp. Cloth $52.00; paper, $22.00 (2001) (11)
Ethnicity, Migration and Social Change : A Study of Three Emigrant Communities in Kerala, India (1993) (11)
Religion, Social Incorporation, and Civic Engagement: Second-Generation Indian American Christians (2013) (11)
Majority versus minority religious status and diasporic nationalism: Indian American advocacy organisations (2017) (9)
The Impact of International Migration on Home Churches: The Mar Thoma Syrian Christian Church in India (2014) (9)
Chapter 8. Gendered Ethnicity: Creating a Hindu Indian Identity in the United States (2019) (8)
Christian by birth or rebirth?: Generation and difference in an Indian American Christian church (2004) (8)
Ethnic Church Meets Megachurch (2018) (6)
Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City. By Sunaina Marr Maira. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002. Pp. xi+244. $64.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). (2004) (6)
Shifting U.S. Racial and Ethnic Identities and Sikh American Activism (2018) (5)
Introduction: the impact of immigrants on American institutions (2004) (3)
Speaking the Unspeakable: Marital Violence among South Asian Immigrants in the United States (review) (2001) (3)
A Place at the Multicultural Table (2020) (2)
12. Constructing "Indianness" in Southern California: The Role of Hindu and Muslim Indian Immigrants (2002) (2)
Race, religion, and the political incorporation of Indian Americans (2016) (2)
Ethnic Church Meets Megachurch: Indian American Christianity in Motion (2017) (2)
‘Culture-free’ religion: new second-generation Muslims and Christians (2021) (2)
The Racial Paradigm and Dalit Anti-Caste Activism in the United States (2022) (1)
Women and South Asian Hinduism and Islam: in the subcontinent and the diaspora (2021) (1)
Intergenerational Differences within Indian Christian Churches in the United States (2018) (0)
Religion, Social Incorporation, and Civic Engagement: Second-Generation Indian American Christians (2012) (0)
2. Hinduism in India (2020) (0)
Contemporary Ethno-Religious Groups and Political Activism in the United States (2014) (0)
Syrian Christian Encounters with Colonial Missionaries and Indian Nationalism (2018) (0)
1. The Transformation of Hinduism in the United States (2020) (0)
10. Being Young, Brown, and Hindu: Student Organizations (2020) (0)
Religion, Social Incorporation, and Civic Engagement among Generations (2018) (0)
Religion and the New Immigrants: Continuities and Adaptations in Immigrant Congregations.By Helen Rose Ebaugh and Janet Saltzman Chafetz. Altamira Press, 2000. 492 pp. Cloth, $69.00 (2002) (0)
The Role of the Church in Migration and Settlement (2018) (0)
South Asian Migration, Settlement, and Sociopolitical Incorporation on the North American West Coast (2017) (0)
6. Forging an Official Hinduism in India: Hindu Umbrella Organizations (2020) (0)
5. The Abode of God: Temples (2020) (0)
International Migration and Its Impact on the Mar Thoma Denomination (2018) (0)
3. Transplanting Hinduism in the United States (2020) (0)
Indian religions in the United States 1 (2020) (0)
The Incorporation of South Asian Minorities in Canada and the United States (2016) (0)
Race, Religion, and the Political Incorporation of Contemporary Immigrants: The Case of Indian Americans (2016) (0)
Class, Culture, and the Performance of Gendered Christianity (2018) (0)
11. The Development of an American Hinduism (2020) (0)
Immigrants and US Elections: Race, Religion, and Indian American Partisan Identities (2018) (0)
Decoupling Religion and Ethnicity: Second-Generation Indian American Christians (2012) (0)
Indian American versus South Asian American advocacy organisations: diasporic political activism in the U.S. (2021) (0)
Coupling versus Decoupling Religion and Ethnicity in the First and Second Generations (2018) (0)
8. Re-visioning Indian History: Internet Hinduism (2020) (0)
7. Forging an Official Hinduism in the United States: Hindu American Umbrella Organizations (2020) (0)

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