Nicolette D Manglos-Weber
Biographic Data
| ID | 3614225 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicolette D Manglos-Weber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicolette D |
| FAMILY NAME | Manglos-Weber |
| SIGNATURE | MANGLOS-WEBER N D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9045-7239 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ambivalent Accommodation
This paper explores the political approaches of community-based Christian and Muslim leaders in Uganda, using interview data from 2017 to 2021. It extends theories about when and why religious leaders mobilize for political reform, updated to reflect the rise of the 'hybrid regime' in Africa and recent evidence of religious de-politicization. I find Ugandan community-based religious leaders' approaches range from political avoidance, to ambivalen…
The Contexts of Spiritual Seeking
Two concurrent agendas in the sociology of religion explore how conditions of secularism in the United States result in widespread norms of 'spiritual seeking', and how religion functions as a basis of belonging for U.S. immigrants. This study brings these subfields together by asking whether new immigrants from Ghana, West Africa, also exhibit an orientation of spiritual seeking in their religious trajectories, and how they engage with normative…
Congregants and Citizens
Scholars and pundits have long debated whether religion helps new immigrants integrate politically in the United States. Those who see religion as an integrative institution cite the country’s history of vibrant religious congregationalism that supports connections between the native and foreign born, while critics point to anti-immigrant hostility, Christian nationalism, and patterns of religious membership that can reinforce social segregation.…
Religious Vitality in Christian Intentional Communities
The Culture of Connection
This chapter moves to Chicago to examine membership in Evangelical Charismatic congregations in the context of migration. Using examples from a particular Ghanaian Charismatic congregation in Chicago, and personal narratives about past experiences in different kinds of congregations, the chapter argues that certain congregations exhibit practices and principles that support intensified sociability among members, and thus have a culture of connect…
The Sources of Risk
There are a number of reasons why aspirational migrants from Ghana are engaged in a particularly risky enterprise. This chapter analyzes the sources of that risk in both the modern Ghanaian context of economic growth and inequality and in the U.S. context of anti-immigrant sentiment and the racial order. The chapter focuses particularly on how these larger forces place a strain on their relationships, both with others in the immigrant community a…
The Shape of Identity
Migrations abroad for a better life take place within the context of complex lifelong trajectories. While Ghanaians coming to the United States are usually motivated by specific aspirations, frequently having to do with education or professional opportunities, their aspirations often change over time and in response to opportunities and setbacks. They are constantly revising their aspirations while also negotiating their identities along dimensio…
Conclusion
This chapter summarizes the argument made in the preceding chapters and discusses what it means for religious membership to serve as a basis of social trust, and specifically personal trust enacted within social relationships. It then takes on the question of whether religious membership is ultimately helpful for immigrant integration, a major long-running debate among sociologists. It argues that while there is some evidence that religious membe…
The Nature of Faith
This final empirical chapter shows how becoming embedded in religious-based relationships of personal trust can effect changes in migrants’ personal trajectories. In other words, new religious memberships and their associated trust networks can lead transnational Ghanaians to revise their aspirations and negotiate their identities in ways they otherwise wouldn’t. One example is how dedicated members and leaders in the congregation often retrospec…
The Draw of Religion
Since the 1960s, a certain variety of Charismatic Evangelical Christianity has rapidly been assuming the religious mainstream in Ghana, as in other countries of West Africa and, indeed, around the world. This chapter is based on research in southern Ghana into the appeal of these new groups. I examine them as part of a youth-oriented religious movement, specifically adapted to the lifestyles and concerns of Ghana’s young, upwardly mobile, educate…
The Setting
This chapter presents the historical and conceptual background to the book’s argument. It starts with a history of Ghana, followed by an analysis of the trends that have led to high levels of out-migration, and then to a description of Ghanaian populations in Chicago. Next, it addresses the concept of social trust in general and personal trust in particular, developing a theory of personal trust as an imaginative and symbolic activity, and analyz…
Joining the Choir
Immigration and race are contentious issues in North America. As a result, black immigrants from Ghana and other countries of West Africa face significant challenges, even as their experiences and accomplishments confound stereotypes about blacks and foreigners. Religious congregations have often helped immigrants navigate the tricky waters of integration in the past; yet how do these particular black immigrants approach organized religion in lig…
Religious Transformations and Generalized Trust in Sub-Saharan Africa
Relationships with God among Young Adults
Experiencing a relationship with God is widely acknowledged as an important aspect of personal religiosity for both affiliated and unaffiliated young adults, but surprisingly few attempts have been made to develop measures appropriate to its latent, multidimensional quality. This paper presents a new model for measuring relationships with God based on religious role theory, attachment to God theory, and insights from interview-based studies, whic…
Innovations in Trust
Analysts of modern-day sub-Saharan Africa have argued that its “neopatrimonial regimes,” descending from pre-colonial polities, translate badly to the scale of the nation-state and hinder democratic accountability. In this paper, I argue by contrast that the problem with today’s failed or failing states is that they are not patrimonial enough, if we understand patrimonialism in classic Weberian terms as a system based on traditions of reciprocal …
Relationships with God among Young Adults
Experiencing a relationship with God is widely acknowledged as an important aspect of personal religiosity for both affiliated and unaffiliated young adults, but surprisingly few attempts have been made to develop measures appropriate to its latent, multidimensional quality. This paper presents a new model for measuring relationships with God based on religious role theory, attachment to God theory, and insights from interview-based studies, whic…
The Contexts of Spiritual Seeking
Two concurrent agendas in the sociology of religion explore how conditions of secularism in the United States result in widespread norms of 'spiritual seeking', and how religion functions as a basis of belonging for U.S. immigrants. This study brings these subfields together by asking whether new immigrants from Ghana, West Africa, also exhibit an orientation of spiritual seeking in their religious trajectories, and how they engage with normative…
Religious Transformations and Generalized Trust in Sub-Saharan Africa
Congregants and Citizens
Scholars and pundits have long debated whether religion helps new immigrants integrate politically in the United States. Those who see religion as an integrative institution cite the country’s history of vibrant religious congregationalism that supports connections between the native and foreign born, while critics point to anti-immigrant hostility, Christian nationalism, and patterns of religious membership that can reinforce social segregation.…
Innovations in Trust
Analysts of modern-day sub-Saharan Africa have argued that its “neopatrimonial regimes,” descending from pre-colonial polities, translate badly to the scale of the nation-state and hinder democratic accountability. In this paper, I argue by contrast that the problem with today’s failed or failing states is that they are not patrimonial enough, if we understand patrimonialism in classic Weberian terms as a system based on traditions of reciprocal …
Relationships with God among Young Adults
Experiencing a relationship with God is widely acknowledged as an important aspect of personal religiosity for both affiliated and unaffiliated young adults, but surprisingly few attempts have been made to develop measures appropriate to its latent, multidimensional quality. This paper presents a new model for measuring relationships with God based on religious role theory, attachment to God theory, and insights from interview-based studies, whic…
Religious Transformations and Generalized Trust in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Culture of Connection
This chapter moves to Chicago to examine membership in Evangelical Charismatic congregations in the context of migration. Using examples from a particular Ghanaian Charismatic congregation in Chicago, and personal narratives about past experiences in different kinds of congregations, the chapter argues that certain congregations exhibit practices and principles that support intensified sociability among members, and thus have a culture of connect…
The Sources of Risk
There are a number of reasons why aspirational migrants from Ghana are engaged in a particularly risky enterprise. This chapter analyzes the sources of that risk in both the modern Ghanaian context of economic growth and inequality and in the U.S. context of anti-immigrant sentiment and the racial order. The chapter focuses particularly on how these larger forces place a strain on their relationships, both with others in the immigrant community a…
The Shape of Identity
Migrations abroad for a better life take place within the context of complex lifelong trajectories. While Ghanaians coming to the United States are usually motivated by specific aspirations, frequently having to do with education or professional opportunities, their aspirations often change over time and in response to opportunities and setbacks. They are constantly revising their aspirations while also negotiating their identities along dimensio…
Conclusion
This chapter summarizes the argument made in the preceding chapters and discusses what it means for religious membership to serve as a basis of social trust, and specifically personal trust enacted within social relationships. It then takes on the question of whether religious membership is ultimately helpful for immigrant integration, a major long-running debate among sociologists. It argues that while there is some evidence that religious membe…
The Nature of Faith
This final empirical chapter shows how becoming embedded in religious-based relationships of personal trust can effect changes in migrants’ personal trajectories. In other words, new religious memberships and their associated trust networks can lead transnational Ghanaians to revise their aspirations and negotiate their identities in ways they otherwise wouldn’t. One example is how dedicated members and leaders in the congregation often retrospec…
The Draw of Religion
Since the 1960s, a certain variety of Charismatic Evangelical Christianity has rapidly been assuming the religious mainstream in Ghana, as in other countries of West Africa and, indeed, around the world. This chapter is based on research in southern Ghana into the appeal of these new groups. I examine them as part of a youth-oriented religious movement, specifically adapted to the lifestyles and concerns of Ghana’s young, upwardly mobile, educate…
The Setting
This chapter presents the historical and conceptual background to the book’s argument. It starts with a history of Ghana, followed by an analysis of the trends that have led to high levels of out-migration, and then to a description of Ghanaian populations in Chicago. Next, it addresses the concept of social trust in general and personal trust in particular, developing a theory of personal trust as an imaginative and symbolic activity, and analyz…
Joining the Choir
Immigration and race are contentious issues in North America. As a result, black immigrants from Ghana and other countries of West Africa face significant challenges, even as their experiences and accomplishments confound stereotypes about blacks and foreigners. Religious congregations have often helped immigrants navigate the tricky waters of integration in the past; yet how do these particular black immigrants approach organized religion in lig…
Religious Vitality in Christian Intentional Communities
Congregants and Citizens
Scholars and pundits have long debated whether religion helps new immigrants integrate politically in the United States. Those who see religion as an integrative institution cite the country’s history of vibrant religious congregationalism that supports connections between the native and foreign born, while critics point to anti-immigrant hostility, Christian nationalism, and patterns of religious membership that can reinforce social segregation.…
The Contexts of Spiritual Seeking
Two concurrent agendas in the sociology of religion explore how conditions of secularism in the United States result in widespread norms of 'spiritual seeking', and how religion functions as a basis of belonging for U.S. immigrants. This study brings these subfields together by asking whether new immigrants from Ghana, West Africa, also exhibit an orientation of spiritual seeking in their religious trajectories, and how they engage with normative…
Ambivalent Accommodation
This paper explores the political approaches of community-based Christian and Muslim leaders in Uganda, using interview data from 2017 to 2021. It extends theories about when and why religious leaders mobilize for political reform, updated to reflect the rise of the 'hybrid regime' in Africa and recent evidence of religious de-politicization. I find Ugandan community-based religious leaders' approaches range from political avoidance, to ambivalen…
Sociology (14 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Immigration (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Ethnic group (5 works)