Event Listing - Literary Arts
Tue Mar 4

Peggy Levitt discusses God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape


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$10

Location
Date and Time
First Congregational Church
2345 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94704 map
cross street: Dana St
district: Berkeley

Tue Mar 4 (7:30 PM)

Description
Professor and chair of the department of sociology at Wellesley College, Peggy Levitt argues that anyone who truly wants to understand immigration must first understand the impact of religion. Like economics and politics, she maintains, American religion is being globalized through immigration, creating a more pluralistic and cosmopolitan American society at home, and at the same time replenishing and exporting the country's core values of family, community, and hard work. God Needs No Passport is the first book to bring the new landscape into view now that immigrants' U.S.- born children make up a quarter of our population, and their parents keep one foot in their countries of origin. 7:30 PM at First Congregational Church of Berkeley (2345 Channing Way) $10 donation is suggested; no one turned away for lack of funds.