Findings & Footnotes

Micro-City: Faith Encounters Super-Diversity in Queens, NY (Fordham University Press, $35), co-authored by RW’s editor Richard Cimino and Hans Tokke, is an in-depth investigation into the effects of ethnic and religious pluralism on congregations. Although the book focuses on the New York City borough of Queens, one of the most ethnically and religiously diverse places on earth, its findings can be applied to other cities and regions where migration has supercharged pluralism. The book’s study of 12 neighborhoods in Queens through the ethnographic method maps a borough where no single group is the majority and where people gather into micro-communities that feel like home, yet still meet and interact across lines of ethnicity, language and creed. Omar McRoberts of the University of Chicago calls the book a “timely meditation on the way religion negotiates diversity, mobility, adversity, inequality, and civility in the age of the global city.” RW readers can obtain the book at a 25 percent discount rate. For more information, email the editor at: relwatch1@msn.com