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Investigates the ability of religious particularism to destroy Christian universalism in the contemporary US, drawing on review of research on particularism & immigration & ethnicity; findings reveal that religious issues of immigrants have been ignored. It is contended that contemporary minority religious groups will develop around linguistic boundaries; however, the eventual process of linguistic acculturation will jeopardize immigrant congregations. To preserve immigrant congregations, the structuring of religious communities must be examined; anecdotes supporting the argument, eg, experiences in a Korean Presbyterian congregation, a Hispanic Catholic celebration of Holy Week, & a group prayer among Muslims, are presented. Virgilio Elizondo's (1983) notion of mestizaje (mixing) is offered as an alternative to the standard US theory of assimilation of foreign cultures & religions, thus countering proponents of US monoculturalism & essentialists who contend that ethnic groups are incapable of or resistant to cultural assimilation. It is concluded that a dynamic notion of cultural assimilation must be advocated in the contemporary US. 1 Appendix, 63 References. J. W. Parker