Dissertation Research: The Influence of Religion on Gender and Class. Joel Streicker Doctoral Candidate

在阶级和多民族社会中，人们经常使用语言和宗教作为维护身份的一种手段。阶级关系反过来会影响亲属关系和对性别的看法。在这个项目中，研究人员将检验一种假设，即发展中国家的工人阶级利用宗教作为一种手段来对抗精英的主张和反对。他将专门研究哥伦比亚卡塔赫纳的加勒比圆圈流行宗教的语言和社会层面，哥伦比亚精英将其定义为不够基督教，并被视为据称是偏离正常的家庭结构的原因。他将专注于男性和女性如何受到这种分类的影响。宗教是拉丁美洲最重要的公共领域。这个项目将增加我们对阶级和宗教如何相互作用和影响发展中国家其他生活领域的理解。

People in class and multiethnic societies often use langauge and religion as a means to assert identity. Class relations in turn affect kinship relationships and ideas about gender. During this project the researcher will test the hypothesis that working classes in developing countries use religion as a means to counter the claims of, and in opposition to, elites. He will specifically study the linguistic and social dimensions of Circum-Caribbean popular religion in Cartagena, Columbia which Columbian elites have defined as insufficiently Christian and as a cause of purportedly deviant family structures. He will focus on how both men and women have been affected by this categorization. Religion is the most important public domain in Latin America. This project will increase our understanding of how class and religion interact and affect other areas of life in developing countries.