Ethnicity

• Bruce


  Religion offers socialisation and a sense of cultural identity in an uncertain or hostile environment
• Herberg


  Studied migrants going to America

  Religion offered a mechanism for smoothly transferring from their home country to a new one

  It was a bonding function to ease them into a new culture

  
  

  Children can adopt their old religion or reject it to become 'American'
• Ken Pryce (1979)

  Cultural defense and cultural transition both important

  Religion helped Afro-Carribean community to help with racist, British society