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Joining the Choir - Religious Membership and Social Trust Among Transnational Ghanaians (Hardcover)
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Joining the Choir - Religious Membership and Social Trust Among Transnational Ghanaians (Hardcover)
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Immigration and race are contentious issues in North America. As a
result, immigrants from Ghana and other countries of West Africa
confront major challenges in the social context of the United
States, even as their experiences and accomplishments confound
stereotypes. Religious congregations have often helped immigrants
navigate the tricky waters of integration in the past; yet how do
these particular black immigrants approach organized religion in
light of their identities and aspirations? What are they looking
for in religious membership, and how do they find it? In Joining
the Choir, Nicolette D. Manglos-Weber takes a deeply personal look
at the lives of a few central characters in Accra, Ghana and
Chicago, Illinois, examining what religious membership means for
them as Christians, transnational Ghanaians, and aspirational
migrants. She sheds light on their search for people they can trust
and their desires to transcend divisions of race, ethnicity, and
nationality in the context of Evangelical Christianity. Her
characters are complex, motivated, and adaptable people for whom
religious membership answers some questions of integration and
raises others. The stories of these migrants show how racial
divides are subtly perpetuated within congregations in spite of
hopes for religious-based assimilation. Yet they also reveal the
potential of religious-based personal trust to bridge those
divides, as an imaginative and symbolic leap of faith with the
unknown stranger. Finally, their stories highlight the continuing
role of religion as a portable basis of trust in the modern world,
where more and more people live between nations.
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