Role of Ethnicity in Religion

The influence of England and Scotland tended to dominate in early America; however, significant influences on American religious development also derived from other Northwest European and Central European countries.3 Later on, immigration from Southern European and Eastern European countries exerted profound influences on American religious development,4

1C. J. H. Hayes, "The American FrontierFrontier of What?" American Historical Review, 2 (1946): 214.

2W. S. Hudson, "How American Is Religion in America?" in J. C. Brauer, (Ed.), Reinterpretation of American Church History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968), 165.

3W. S. Hudson, "Religion in America," 3rd ed. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1981), 4.

1 2and, in the lastquarter of the twentieth century, Latin American and Asian immigration is helping to reshape American religious development.5

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hened the Roman Catholic church in the United States.48 At the same time, however, it provided the AngloSaxon protestants with ammunition to claim that the Catholics promoted foreign, unAmerican interests, and, thus, strengthened the country's antiCatholicism movement, which was led by the Ku Klux Klan, as well as by the Protestant churches. __________ 45Marty, 106107. 46Ahlstrom, 10061007. 47Marty, 107. 48Marty, 112. 11 Roman Catholics had been present in America from the early days of colonization. They were, however, a minority quite a small minorityin all regions. It was the great ethnic immigration from eastern and southern European countries which began the strengthening of the Roman Catholic church in the United States, a strengthening which was enhanced greatly by Irish immigration. All of these ethnic immigrations, however, provided more ammunition for the AngloSaxon racist movement in American religion and other institutions to portray the Roman Catholic church as both unAmerican and foreign.49 The antiCatholic and antiimmigrant movement in the United States resulted in the development of ethnic ghettos in American cities, and the Roman Catholic church, for a long time period, became
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