Lecture- Can Immigrants disconnect religion from ethnic culture?

Religion → Ethnicity → culture

Ethnic grp: a subpop within alrger society having real or putative (they assign something to themselves).

  • common ancestry

  • memories of a shared historical past

  • cultural focus on one or more symbolic elements defined as the epitome of theri pplhood.

    • religion, language, national origin, geographic origin, and or perceived physical markers.

Latino Religious Study

Bailey’s Arg

religion affects culture, so what happens when immigrants move to a new space?

Religion may preserve ethnic culture by carrying language, ritual, homeland me, symbols, and fam norms across generation.

Religion may also reorient away from in herited ethnic markers toward conversion, universalism, americanization, or mere culture.

  • the task is not to pibk one to advance, but to ID the conditions under which each happens.

Q: is a protest latino simply a latino who happens to be pro or the line for religion and ethnicity does not exist?'

by looking at the spanish speaking ability who remained different for latino community whoare still catholics versus Protestant latino community.

  • catholicism as a bridge

  • protestantis, as reorientation

Master identity: what/ which ID surpass all of your identities.

moral memory: home land memory; be proud of your homeland.

demonization of the homeland: does not take pride in the location. associate things that you were used to the homeland as a negative exp.

  •     thinning: when prostestantism displaces inculturated catholicism, some ethnic markers-especially spanish home use- may weaken across gen

Indian and Chinese Christians

  • chinese converts to Christian.

    • often construct an exclusive boundary; conversion means leaving Chinese religion behind and distinguishing themselves fron non-christian co-ethnic

  • Indian converts to Christian

    • implicit inclusionary boundary: conversion is narrated as movements within a broader search for God or truth, not total separation from Hindu Indians.

  • reformatting: when convert reject prior sacred meanings, they may preserve ethnicity by redefining practices as secular culture compatible with protestant ID.