Ethnicity and Religion
Chapter 5
Chapter Overview
I.
II.
III.
IV.
Introduction
Religion
Ethnicity
Ethnicity, Religion, &
Social Class
V. Religion in the U.S.
VI. Review
I. Introduction
A. “Quiz”
B. Ethnicity & Religion: Significant
Self-Concepts
C. Religious Tolerance on a
Continuum
D. Major Religions of the World
I. Introduction
A. “Quiz”
B. Ethnicity & Religion: Significant
Self-Concepts
C. Religious Tolerance on a
Continuum
D. Major Religions of the World
1. The largest ancestral group in America is
German.
True
2. Americans still discriminate against the
Roman Catholic Church, even though it has a
membership of 50 million in the United States.
True
3. There are about 39 million Irish Americans
while only 4 million Irish live in Ireland.
True
4. Sunday Church meetings are arguably “the
most segregated hour of the week.”
True
5. Due to the secularization of American
society, religious institutions are losing ground.
False
6. TV and movies depict religious characters as
more successful than nonreligious characters.
False
7. Ethnic interest decreases with every
generation after immigration.
False
8. Americans who want to identify with their
heritage use time-honored ethnic traditions.
False
9. When African Americans were gaining
respect in the 70s, the mass media was still
ridiculing white ethnics.
True
10. “WASP” is still the desirable religious and
ethnic designation.
True
I. Introduction
A. “Quiz”
B. Ethnicity & Religion: Significant
Self-Concepts
C. Religious Tolerance on a
Continuum
D. Major Religions of the World
Y.J.U.s: Classroom Census of
Nationality & Religion
Y.J.U.: What is
your ethnicity?
Y.J.U.: My
Ethnicity is special.
Y.J.U.: Why or
why not?
Y.J.U.: Being
an American is
Special.
Y.J.U.: Why or
Why not?
Y.J.U.s: Classroom Census of
Nationality & Religion
Y.J.U.: What is
your religion?
Y.J.U.: My
Religion is special.
Y.J.U.: Why or
why not?
I. Introduction
A. “Quiz”
B. Ethnicity & Religion: Significant
Self-Concepts
C. Religious Tolerance on a
Continuum
D. Major Religions of the World
I. Introduction
A. “Quiz”
B. Ethnicity & Religion: Significant
Self-Concepts
C. Religious Tolerance on a
Continuum
D. Major Religions of the World
B. Major Religions of the World
II. Religion
A. Roots of Prejudice
B. A Lot of Facts
C. Mapping Religions in the US
II. Religion
A. Roots of Prejudice
B. A Lot of Facts
C. Mapping Religions in the US
II. Religion
A. Roots of Prejudice
B. A Lot of Facts
1.
2.
3.
4.
Another continuum
Religion is always changing
Over 15,000 religious bodies
Age & church or synagogue
membership
II. Religion
A. Roots of Prejudice
B. A Lot of Facts
1.
2.
3.
4.
Another continuum
Religion is always changing
Over 15,000 religious bodies
Age & church or synagogue
membership
A Continuum of Religious
Groups
II. Religion
A. Roots of Prejudice
B. A Lot of Facts
1.
2.
3.
4.
Another continuum
Religion is always changing
Over 15,000 religious bodies
Age & church or synagogue
membership
II. Religion
A. Roots of Prejudice
B. A Lot of Facts
1.
2.
3.
4.
Another continuum
Religion is always changing
Over 15,000 religious bodies
Age & church or synagogue
membership
II. Religion
A. Roots of Prejudice
B. A Lot of Facts
1.
2.
3.
4.
Another continuum
Religion is always changing
Over 15,000 religious bodies
Age & church or synagogue
membership
Age and Church or
Synagogue Membership
II. Religion
A. Roots of Prejudice
B. A Lot of Facts
C. Mapping religions
Predominance of Religions in
America by Counties
III. Ethnicity
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Ethnicity is a social construct
Rediscovering ethnicity
Third Generation Principle
Symbolic Ethnicity
Ethnic paradox
III. Ethnicity
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Ethnicity is a social construct
Rediscovering ethnicity
Third Generation Principle
Symbolic Ethnicity
Ethnic paradox
III. Ethnicity
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Ethnicity is a social construct
Rediscovering ethnicity
Third Generation Principle
Symbolic Ethnicity
Ethnic paradox
III. Ethnicity
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Ethnicity is a social construct
Rediscovering ethnicity
Third Generation Principle
Symbolic Ethnicity
Ethnic paradox
III. Ethnicity
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Ethnicity is a social construct
Rediscovering ethnicity
Third Generation Principle
Symbolic Ethnicity
Ethnic paradox
III. Ethnicity
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Ethnicity is a social construct
Rediscovering ethnicity
Third Generation Principle
Symbolic Ethnicity
Ethnic paradox
IV. Ethnicity, Religion, and
Social Class
A. Bigotry
B. Religion and Income
C. Greeley’s Research
IV. Ethnicity, Religion, and
Social Class
A. Bigotry
1.
2.
3.
4.
Respectable bigotry
Ethnic prejudice
Class prejudice
Ethclass
B. Religion and Income
C. Greeley’s Research
IV. Ethnicity, Religion, and
Social Class
A. Bigotry
1.
2.
3.
4.
Respectable bigotry
Ethnic prejudice
Class prejudice
Ethclass
B. Religion and Income
C. Greeley’s Research
IV. Ethnicity, Religion, and
Social Class
A. Bigotry
1.
2.
3.
4.
Respectable bigotry
Ethnic prejudice
Class prejudice
Ethclass
B. Religion and Income
C. Greeley’s Research
IV. Ethnicity, Religion, and
Social Class
A. Bigotry
1.
2.
3.
4.
Respectable bigotry
Ethnic prejudice
Class prejudice
Ethclass
B. Religion and Income
C. Greeley’s Research
IV. Ethnicity, Religion, and
Social Class
A. Bigotry
1.
2.
3.
4.
Respectable bigotry
Ethnic prejudice
Class prejudice
Ethclass
B. Religion and Income
C. Greeley’s Research
IV. Ethnicity, Religion, and
Social Class
A. Bigotry
B. Religion and Income
C. Greeley’s Research
Religion and Income
40000
35000
Baptist
Muslim
Methodist
LDS
Lutheran
Catholic
Presbyterian
Episcopalian
Jewish
30000
25000
20000
15000
10000
5000
0
Baptist
LDS
Presbyterian
IV. Ethnicity, Religion, and
Social Class
A. Bigotry
B. Religion and Income
C. Greeley’s Research
V. Religion in the United
States
A. Religion and the U.S. Supreme
Court: Big Discussion (text p. 141)
B. Civil Religion
C. Mormonism and Polygamy
D. A bunch of facts, if we have time
V. Religion in the United
States
A. Religion and the U.S. Supreme
Court: Big Discussion (text p. 141)
B. Civil Religion
C. Mormonism and Polygamy
D. A bunch of facts, if we have time
V. Religion in the United
States
A. Religion and the U.S. Supreme
Court: Big Discussion (text p. 141)
B. Civil Religion
C. Mormonism and Polygamy
D. A bunch of facts, if we have time
V. Religion in the United
States
A. Religion and the U.S. Supreme
Court: Big Discussion (text p. 141)
B. Civil Religion
C. Mormonism and Polygamy
D. A bunch of facts, if we have time
V. Religion in the United
States
A. Religion and the U.S. Supreme
Court: Big Discussion (text p. 141)
B. Civil Religion
C. Mormonism and Polygamy
1.
2.
3.
How come?
LDS Scripture
The Manifesto
V. Religion in the United
States
A. Religion and the U.S. Supreme
Court: Big Discussion (text p. 141)
B. Civil Religion
C. Mormonism and Polygamy
1.
2.
3.
How come?
LDS Scripture
The Manifesto
V. Religion in the United
States
A. Religion and the U.S. Supreme
Court: Big Discussion (text p. 141)
B. Civil Religion
C. Mormonism and Polygamy
1.
2.
3.
How come?
LDS Scripture
The Manifesto
The 12th Article of Faith
We believe in being subject to
kings, presidents, rulers,
and magistrates, in obeying,
honoring, and sustaining
the law.
V. Religion in the United
States
A. Religion and the U.S. Supreme
Court: Big Discussion (text p. 141)
B. Civil Religion
C. Mormonism and Polygamy
1.
2.
3.
How come?
LDS Scripture
The Manifesto
The Manifesto
Oct 6, 1890
OFFICIAL DECLARATION—1
To Whom It May Concern:
Press dispatches having been sent for
Political purposes, from Salt Lake City,
which have been widely published, to
the effect that the Utah Commission, in
their recent report to the Secretary of
the Interior, allege that plural
marriages are still being solemnized
and that forty or more such marriages
have been contracted in Utah since last
June or during the past year,
also that in public discourses the
leaders of the Church have taught,
encouraged and urged the
continuance of the practice of
polygamy—
One case has been reported, in which
the parties allege that the marriage
was performed in the Endowment
House, in Salt Lake City, in the
Spring of 1889, but I have not been
able to learn who performed the
ceremony; whatever was done in
this matter was without my
knowledge. In consequence of this
alleged occurrence the Endowment
House was, by my instructions,
taken down without delay.
Inasmuch as laws have been enacted
by Congress forbidding plural
marriages, which laws have been
pronounced constitutional by the
court of last resort, I hereby declare
my intention to submit to those
laws, and to use my influence with
the members of the Church over
which I preside to have them do
likewise.
There is nothing in my teachings to
the Church or in those of my
associates, during the time
specified, which can be reasonably
construed to inculcate or encourage
polygamy; and when any Elder of
the Church has used language
which appeared to convey any such
teaching, he has been promptly
reproved. And I now publicly declare
that my advice to the Latter-day
Saints is to refrain from contracting
any marriage forbidden by the law
of the land.
WILFORD WOODRUFF
President of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints.
President Lorenzo Snow offered the following:
“I move that, recognizing Wilford Woodruff
as the President of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the only
man on the earth at the present time who
holds the keys of the sealing ordinances,
we consider him fully authorized by virtue
of his position to issue the Manifesto which
has been read in our hearing, and which is
dated September 24th, 1890, and that as a
Church in General Conference assembled,
we accept his declaration concerning plural
marriages as authoritative and binding.”
The vote to sustain the foregoing motion
was unanimous.
Salt Lake City, Utah, October 6, 1890.
V. Religion in the United
States
A. Religion and the U.S. Supreme
Court: Big Discussion (text p. 141)
B. Civil Religion
C. Mormonism and Polygamy
D. A bunch of facts, if we have time
Most segregated hour of the week
Roman Catholics
White ethnics
Life chances
Women in the clergy
The Amish
Creationists

Religion is always changing.
Examples:
Those who believe in angels
Promise Keepers
Faith hopping
 58% of the
American public
claim to be
religious, but
only 5% of TV
programming
shows religious
characters or
addresses
religious plots.
• The media
portrays the
clergy and
religious
persons
predominantly
in a negative
light (i.e., as
comical or
fanatical).
Adult Population Membership
Breakdowns:
Protestants = 58%
Roman Catholics = 25%
Jews = 2%
•U.S. Churches’ Gains and
Losses in the Last 10 Years
 About 70% of Americans
are church members.
Q: How many are active?
Q: Are new members keeping
numbers high?
• Conclusion: We don’t
know if religion is growing
or shrinking