Luther Seminary Digital Commons @ Luther Seminary Faculty Publications Faculty & Staff choS larship 2003 North American Lutheranism and the New Ethnics Mark A. Granquist
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[email protected]. North American Lutheranism and the New Ethnics MARK GRANQUIST Most American Lutherans are descendants of immigrants who came to North America from northern Europe in the great trans-Atlantic mi grations of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Lutherans came from Germany and Scandinavia by the millions, and developed their own religious institutions in this new world, coming to dominate reli gious life in certain sections of the North American continent. But ' North American Lutheranism has never been solely about Germans and Scandinavians, and in the twentieth century this has become in creasingly evident. Lutheran immigrants have arrived in North Amer ica from Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America.1 Lutheran evangelistic efforts in North America have targeted non-traditional populations, such as African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Amer icans, to develop ethnic parishes.