Latino Churches: Faith, Family, and Ethnicity in the Second GenerationCrane's work shows how a significant number of Latino youth born in the rural Midwest have stayed involved in church out of ethnic and family solidarity. Although these youths do not show the same zeal and enthusiasm for certain traditions held dear by their parents, they have kept the church as a vital social space for expressing their own spirituality and ethnic identity. Latino churches, in turn, are effective in shaping the lives of youth because they function both as supporters and extensions of the family. The family-congregation nexus combines to enable a more selective form of acculturation that maintains a high-level of family cohesion and linguistic-cultural continuity. Crane's study shows that religion continues to increase the diversity of society rather than facilitate the "incorporation" of ethnic groups into a cultural "mainstream." |
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... Catholic Church Spanish - speaking Catholicism predates the Pilgrims and existed in parts of the United States annexed for statehood ( the Southwest and California ) . The Catholic Church in the U.S. is estimated to be about 35 percent ...
... Catholic Church Spanish - speaking Catholicism predates the Pilgrims and existed in parts of the United States annexed for statehood ( the Southwest and California ) . The Catholic Church in the U.S. is estimated to be about 35 percent ...
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... Catholics generated major institutional changes , especially in dioceses where they were powerful such as New York ... Catholic Church is a multicultural ( but primarily Latino ) parish , with a history of " mission " work to the newly ...
... Catholics generated major institutional changes , especially in dioceses where they were powerful such as New York ... Catholic Church is a multicultural ( but primarily Latino ) parish , with a history of " mission " work to the newly ...
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... Catholic Church and migrates from Texas . Victoria tells how she came to join Iglesia Adventista : V. Well since we were about ten or eleven , we started getting visitors from the Adventist church , and we got friends from there so we ...
... Catholic Church and migrates from Texas . Victoria tells how she came to join Iglesia Adventista : V. Well since we were about ten or eleven , we started getting visitors from the Adventist church , and we got friends from there so we ...
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