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3 - A Road Map for Integrating Religiosity to Acculturation Research

from Part 1 - Acculturation and Identity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2021

By
Derya Güngör  and
Karen Phalet
Edited by
Michael Bender  and
Byron G. Adams
Michael Bender
Affiliation:
Universiteit van Tilburg, The Netherlands
Byron G. Adams
Affiliation:
Universiteit van Tilburg, The Netherlands
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Summary

Despite growing public and academic interest in the role of religion in immigrants’ lives, research focusing on a religious dimension of acculturation is still scarce. This chapter proposes an integrative acculturation framework (cf. Arends-Toth & van de Vijver, 2006) as a heuristic for conceptualizing and assessing a distinct religious dimension of acculturation conditions, orientations, and outcomes. We focus on Muslim immigrant minorities in Europe as illustrative cases and review exemplary empirical studies on (1) the processes related to religious transmission in immigrant families and communities as a critical religious acculturation condition, (2) the role of high religiosity in maintaining a distinct heritage culture and adopting the mainstream culture as acculturation orientations, and (3) the conditions under which religiosity serves as a cultural boundary maker in an intercultural context. To conclude, we encourage researchers to integrate religiosity assessment as standard practice in acculturation research.

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religious acculturationacculturationacculturation orientationsimmigrantsMuslim immigrantsimmigrant familiesintercultural relations
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Methods and Assessment in Culture and Psychology , pp. 41 - 61
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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