Ratings of Essentialism for Eight Religious Identities

Ratings of Essentialism for Eight Religious Identities.

As a social identity, religion is unique because it contains a spectrum of choice. In some religious communities, individuals are considered members by virtue of having parents of that background, and religion, culture, and ethnicity are closely intertwined. Other faith communities actively invite people of other backgrounds to join, expecting individuals to choose the religion that best fits t...

Transnational Identities and Religious Traditions: A Case of Religious Double Belonging in India

Intersecting Identities as a Source of Religious Incongruence

Chaves (2010) argues that much of the work in the sociology of religion is susceptible to the religious congruence fallacy—the tendency to assume consistency between religious beliefs and one’s attitudes and behaviors across situations when they are in fact highly variable. We build on and extend this argument by focusing on intersecting group identities as a mechanism for identifying such inco...

Conjuring Boundaries: Inferring Past Identities from Religious Artifacts

A detailed examination of commonalities between folk religion beliefs and practices of African American and European American ethnic groups raises intriguing issues. Interpretations concerning the ethnic group association of conjuration artifacts uncovered at eighteenthand nineteenth-century sites in the mid-Atlantic region must be based on a clearer articulation of the interplay of three issue...

A tiling approach to eight identities of Rogers

Beginning in 1893, L. J. Rogers produced a collection of papers in which he considered series expansions of infinite products. Over the years, his identities have been given a variety of partition theoretic interpretations and proofs. These existing combinatorial techniques, however, do not highlight the similarities and the subtle differences seen in so many of these remarkable identities. It ...