Ritual change and social transformation in migrant societies Preface Hans Georg Soeffner Darius Zifonun Fragile pluralism Hans Georg Soeffner Migration and religion : beyond ethnic community and ethclass Darius Zifonun Modernity and ritual transformations in Chinese ancestor worship Tong Chee Kiong Migration and reconfiguration of religious rituals : the case of Iranians in southern California Kenji Kuroda Atsuko Tsubakihara The topos of cultural diversity : on the communicative construction of intermediate worlds of migrant reality Bernt Schnettler Bernd Rebstein Maria Pusoma Intercultural stereotypes : ethnic inequality as a system of social order in the soccer milieu Darius Zifonun