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Immigration, Christian faith communities, and the practice of multiculturalism in the US South 美国南部的移民、基督教信仰团体与多元文化实践 Abstract: Recent scholarship has declared multiculturalism to be in retreat, yet multiculturalist discourses and practices remain salient in many realms of social reproduction. This paper explores multiculturalism in predominantly white churches in the U.S. South, a region that has seen significant demographic transformations due to immigration. Church outreach to immigrants draws on theologies that reject racial prejudice and that call for the accommodation and celebration of cultural differences. Drawing on qualitative research with pastors and congregants, this article explores how multiculturalist practice is both re-working and reinforcing existing social relationships in Christian faith communities. Multiculturalist practices, we show, disrupt racialized hierarchies long embedded in white churches. But they simultaneously leave racialized distinctions and inequalities intact, in part by maintaining separation between immigrants and non-immigrants. This case illustrates the everyday politics of multiculturalism and the ways in which the boundaries of social membership take shape in ordinary, seemingly non-political spaces. 摘要：最近研究界宣称多元文化主义正在退却，但多元文化主义话语和实践在社会再生产的很多领域仍然很突出。本文探讨了在美国南部在白人为主的教堂的多元文化，该地区见证了移民带来的显着的人口变化。教会将移民接纳吸收进神学，它拒绝种族偏见，呼吁包容和赞美文化差异。通过对牧师和教徒的定性研究，本文探讨了在基督教信仰社区里多元文化主义的实践是如何重获活力和加强现有的社会关系的。我们表明的多元文化主义实践，打破了长期根植在白人教堂的种族等级，但同时他们抛弃种族差异和不平等，其中部分原因是通过保持移民和非移民之间的分离达成的。这个例子说明了多元文化的日常政治以及社会成员的边界生成的方式，它是在普通的、看似非政治的空间中形成的。 作者: Nagel, Caroline; Ehrkamp, Patricia 来源：ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES 卷: 40 期: 1 页: 190-208 出版年: JAN 2017 (责任编辑：admin) |