Prof. Nicolette Manglos-Weber Featured in Sociology of Religion Journal Podcast
Assistant Professor of Religion and Society Nicolette Manglos-Weber was featured on the April 22, 2021 podcast published by the Sociology of Religion Journal to discuss her new research work on global faith communities in the African diaspora, and lived religion and social welfare. In this podcast, she discusses her recent article The Contexts of Spiritual Seeking: How Ghanaians in the United States Navigate Changing Normative Conditions of Religious Belief and Practice, published by the Sociology of Religion Journal in February 2021. 
Her article relates to her larger research project, and her interest on the rise of pentecostalism and evangelicalism in Africa. “I was very interested in the potential for Pentecostal conversion to impact things like social class arrangements, social networks, and also inter-ethnic group relationships, which is a really prevalent and important political issue in places like Ghana. But as I started to explore the diasporic expressions of this organization, particularly in Chicago, I became more and more interested in how these forms of West African evangelicalism shaped immigrant trajectories, particularly immigrants in the North American context,” Prof. Manglos-Weber offers. But the driving question behind her research work, she says, became “How do these new arrivals from Ghana and other countries of West Africa decide where to go to church?”