Founded and led by a U.S.‐born white pastor, Amor Poderoso is a nondenominational, evangelical megachurch in El Paso, Texas, almost entirely composed of Mexican‐Americans, recent Mexican immigrants, and current Mexican citizens. Ethnographic fieldwork from 2014 to 2017, supplemented with interviews with pastors, worship leaders, and attendees, reveal that much of congregational life orients around intentionally showcasing “Mexican” culture through sounds, images, and artifacts that appropriate an array of idealized ethnic references (e.g., food, dress, mannerisms, clichés) from Northern Mexico. Ongoing ethnic displays do not originate spontaneously or impromptu from membership but rather serve as a form of tactical authenticity derived from U.S. racial schemas mobilized by congregational leaders as a distinctive religious resource. Weekly worship services featuring dialect‐inflected Spanish preaching and singing project ethnic signals that elicit connections to both a common ancestral heritage and a common religious identity. In short, church leaders at this southern border Latino church deliberately deploy sounds, images, and artifacts to assert racialized performances of being “Mexican” for distinctly religious purposes, especially evangelization. In the process, the distinctive practices of religious racialization effectively structure church members’ ethnic and religious identities around racial tropes to buttress a cogent corporate identity for enacting institutionalized evangelical narratives and legitimating charismatic authority.

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拉丁裔新教教会中“节日”的战略实践：宗教种族化与种族认同的表现

阿莫尔·波德罗索（Amor Poderoso）由美国出生的白人牧师创立并领导，是德克萨斯州埃尔帕索的非宗派福音派大型教堂，几乎完全由墨西哥裔美国人，最近的墨西哥移民和现任墨西哥公民组成。2014年至2017年的人种志田野调查，再加上对牧师，朝拜领袖和参加者的访谈，揭示了围绕会众生活的许多地方，他们通过声音，图像和人工制品有意展示“墨西哥”文化，这些声音，图像和手工艺品适合各种理想的族裔参考（例如，食物，服饰，举止和陈词滥调）。持续的种族展示不是自发地或即兴产生的，而是作为战术真实性的一种形式，其源于美国领导人通过集会领袖动员的美国种族图谋作为独特的宗教资源。每周的礼拜活动以方言为基础的西班牙讲道和歌唱项目的民族信号，引起与共同祖传遗产和共同宗教身份的联系。简而言之，在这个南部边境的拉美裔教会的教会领导者故意部署声音，图像和人工制品，以宣扬种族化的表演，即“墨西哥人”出于明显的宗教目的，尤其是传福音。在此过程中，宗教种族化的独特做法有效地围绕着种族比喻来构建教会成员的族裔和宗教身份，以支持强有力的公司身份，以制定制度化的福音派叙事和使人具有超凡魅力的权威。