Today, we finish up our seminar on Chicago's religious history by focusing on a history that is still being written. As we discussed last week, the Immigration Act of 1965 radically changed not only the number of people who immigrated into the United States, but also where people were immigrating from. Where northern and southern Europeans had been the most prominent immigrant groups throughout for over a century, immigrants from Asia and Latin America swiftly became most prominent in the years after the Immigration Act.
Today, we'll conclude with one particular tale of this ongoing demographic revolution. Eboo Patel's memoir Acts of Faith is in part a Chicago story, but it's also a story of many of the themes and issues we've confronted here. Today--and REMEMBER we're meeting in room B91--we'll use Patel's memoir as a way to see what has changed and what has stayed the same in Chicago's 100 years of religious history. What has the city constant done to religion? What has religion constantly done to the city?
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Thursday, November 4, 2010
A Theology of the Streets
Soul and Food in Chicago, c. 1940s |
Elder Lucy Smith, c. 1940s |
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