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Ethnicity And Religion
What Is Ethnicity?
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Common Ancestry
Common Culture
Common Language
Common Religion
RELIGION HELPS SHAPE ETHNICITY
Ethnicity Helps Shape Religion
• Ethnic Fusion: religion is born from the
ethnicity and bears its mark
• Ethnic Religion: the ethnicity is primary and
you have to share it to be part of the religion
• Religious Ethnicity: the religion is primary
and you can be any ethnicity
The Case Of Catholics & Jews
• CATHOLICS
– Irish, Italians, and Polish . . . Oh My!
• Americanization Or Hibernization?!
• “How Come There Ain’t No Brothas On The Wall”?
– Hostility Because Of Religion Or Because Of
Ethnicity?
• JEWS
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The Center Of World Jewry
Religious and Ethnic Persecution
Being Born A Jew
Reform, Orthodox, and Conservative Judaism
New Immigrants & Religion
• Protestants, Catholics, and Jews
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Increase In Hispanic Population
Why Protestantism Is Popular With Immigrants
First & Second Generation Schism
New Jewish Immigrants
• Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism
– 3 Million Muslims In The United STates
– Hindus . . . . Home Shrines, Small Temples
– Buddhism . . . . A Dying Religion?