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ather that there is a dynamic two-way relationship between religious and ethnic
identity.Each can activate changes in the other.
Conclusions
This article has argued that there may be more religious causality and content in certain ethnic
identifications than one might think. There is certainly a need to look beneath surface assumptions
that identities are primarily ethnic, and probe their religious foundations, expressions and
implications. Often, there appears to be a complex two-way relationship between the religious and
ethnic bases of identity, where each can inform and provoke changes in the other. As a social
construct, religion only has meaning in so far as individuals and groups give it meaning. In saying
that religion is an active identity category, this is not to suggest that it is somehow itself able to
affect changes or inform action.Rather, it is to argue that individuals and groups often call on
substantive religious content to construct identifications.This is important because religious
identifications are different types of identifications than ones based primarily on ideas of ethnic
descent and kinship.A key property of religion is that it evokes a sense of the sacred. This can add
a potent dimension to the already oppositional nature of identification. The institutions and ritual
practices that religion provides may enhance community organization and political mobilization.
Even when people use churches instrumentally,to provide a meeting place or foster cultural
identity, this can have unintended religious consequences. Similarly, even when identities might
seem secular, it is worth probing the underlying sources of their constitution because often latent
religious content partially conditions the way an identity functions.Moreover, whilst there are
latent dimensions of religious identity underlying other identities, religion has the capacity to
revive and resurface. Whilst identity conflicts and other social struggles may stimulate the return
of the religious,once reactivated, religion may take on a logic of its own. Given the continuing
salience of religion in public life, and the ever-increasing emphasis on the negotiated nature of
identity, teasing out the relationships between religion and ethnicity in modern societies,
theoretically and empirically, promises to be a challenging new area of research.
Claire Mitchell
Queen’s University Belfast
Sociology 40, 2006.
http://soc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/6/1135
1. aleksandart Says:
January 16th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Ovo je sjajno. Kako ja nemam srece sa surfovanjem….
2. vesnaa Says:
January 17th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Hvala Aleksandre! Ali nemoj da se nerviras zbog surfovanja, kad si ti jedan od retkih koji
pisu svoje tekstove, sto je za svaku pohvalu. Ja sam imala srece da poskidam dosta
zanimljivih tekstova sa SAGE Publications, dok je bio free trial, i onda sad pronalazim u
tom folderu teme koje su zanimljive sa tacke gledista nase skolice. Iako sam cesto
prinudjena da skracujem tekstove, opet ispadnu ogromni, pa onda primenjujem ovo
boldovanje delova koji se meni cine bas vaznim, kako bi se neko prelecuci pogledom
preko tih istaknutih pasusa, “upecao” da procita ceo prilog…:)
Nego, zao mi je sto ljudi nisu obratili paznju na blogove o Sophia Perennis, kad je - kako je
to lepo primetio Kahteran u tekstu “Metafizicki melem”- upravo takvo shvatanje religije
izuzetno korisno za pomirenje i dijalog….
U svakom slucaju, pisemo se na forumu - sve teze mi polazi za rukom da se sa dial-up
konekcijom ulogujem u blog - otkad se nakupilo priloga, nece da ucita celu stranicu, nego
stane na pola i pise nesto “fatal error, bla bla”, tako da mi najcesce fali onaj deo gde su