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Sheikh, Christine. "Islam as Ethnicity, Islam as Religion: A Typology of how Religious and Ethnic Identities Intersect Among Second-Generation Muslim Americans" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA, Jul 31, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p243111_index.html>

Sheikh, C. S. , 2008-07-31 "Islam as Ethnicity, Islam as Religion: A Typology of how Religious and Ethnic Identities Intersect Among Second-Generation Muslim Americans" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p243111_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: In Herberg’s (1955) classic work Protestant Catholic Jew, the author astutely observes that religiousness itself has often been a key means of immigrant adaptation. Herberg’s theory of the “triple melting pot”, in which immigrants “melt” not into a broader stew of bland Americanism, but melt into three side-by-side multi-ethnic pots of Protestants, Catholics, and Jews (33). Much of the more recent sociological literature examining the relationship between religion and ethnicity focuses on institutional arenas as central locations of ethnic identity-building (Warner and Wittner 1998; Ebaugh and Chafetz 2000; Ebaugh and Yang 2001; Guest 2003; Yang 1999). Yang and Ebaugh (2001) aptly note that, “Historically, religious institutions were among the most important resources that immigrant groups used to reproduce their ethno-religious identity in new surroundings and to help them adjust to the challenges of surviving in a demanding and often threatening environment” (269). In light of growing research on Muslim Americans, and recent research (Sheikh 2007) delinating pan-religiousness among the second generation, one might argue that Muslims are rapidly becoming the fourth “pot.” The research question for this study is: what is the relationship between religiosity and the level of ethnic identification of second-generation Americans? In other words, is religiousness (being a practicing Muslim) consistently linked to stronger ethnic identification (being specifically a Sudani, or a Pakistani, for example) among second-generation Americans? Most bluntly, the answer is: yes and no. Yes, in that several of my respondents did evidence this kind of relationship between religious and ethnic identification. No, in that the majority of my respondents demonstrated another set of patterns. In this article, I elucidate the patterned intersections between religious and ethnic identities I found among the 44 participants in my research conducted using 44 qualitative interviews.

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