Blog #6

In class last week we started talking about how religion can be a face to a groups identity.   Some of the connections religion can have to a group or person is race, geography, and nationality.  One identity that is most of the time associated with religion is race.  I feel like we also took a lot of time in class talking about race and the identity it has on once religion.  We covered three approaches that relate religion and race.  The first approach we covered was the Abramson Approach.  Here we looked at the video of the Amish people and what they did to their people for not living like their rules say.  There was also a group of Amish that started doing bad things to a group of non-Amish people which caused the whole Amish community to look bad.  The next approach we looked at was the Greeley Two-Way Flow approach.  This approach mainly talked about how religion is related to race.  Here for an example we looked at how when people usually thing about the US and religion they think mainly Christian.  The last approach we covered was the constellation of ethnology-religious relationships.  We covered that there can be certain things and events that can be related to different religions.  We used Easter and Christianity as an example for this.  And another thing is Christmas and Christianity.  

Below I have found an article that talks about religion identity and inter group conflict.  It is a very interesting article and I recommend that you read the article.  It covers some interesting topics that we can relate to what we talked about in class.    

http://jpr.sagepub.com/content/36/5/553.short