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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13pt'>TfC is pleased to announce the first of our Wednesday seminars in the<B> TfC Lunchtime Seminar Series</B>, presented by Jane Juffer, Cornell University.<BR>
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</SPAN><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'><U>Wednesday, 22nd July, 12:00-2:00, TfC Bagel, UTS Building 3, Room 4.02.<BR>
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</I>Europe and the US are no longer the defining sites of Christianity; rather, in terms of both numbers and influence, Christianity is being defined in Latin America, Asia, and Africa and then transported via migration throughout the world. This seminar examines the politics of this global Christianity, focusing on the migration of Latino Protestants into previously Anglo parts of the US. Some theologians locate in these diasporic movements the potential for <I>mestizaje</I>, a cultural, racial, and religious mixing that unsettles dominant categories. Yet despite this theoretical possibility, much Latino Protestantism is socially conservative, a politics that has interestingly led to more alliances with Anglo Protestants and revitalized their congregations. However, the alliances may not extend far beyond the churches. The economies of these rural areas also need Latinos, to replenish their aging workforces. I raise the possibility, then, that this conjuncture of events will lead to a revival of the Protestant work ethic, or, more precisely, what Rey Chow has called the Protestant work ethnic. Revising Max Weber, Chow argues that immigrants to the US today still gain ethnic acceptance based on their ability to adhere to the Protestant work ethic, which in turn, allows for a certain retention of ethnic diversity. Conveniently for the dominant class, this produces a cheap labour pool. I illustrate this conjuncture through a brief ethnography of an Iowa town where a hybrid Anglo-Protestant church has formed and where Latinos now provide the bulk of the labour force for the meat-packing and dairy industries.<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="1"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:9pt'>Lindi Renier Todd | Research and Publications Officer <BR>
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