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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Page 132
... Templo Rey . Affiliated with the Assemblies of God denomination in the U.S. , which claims a membership of about 2.3 million , 3 Templo Rey is now is home to 300 Pentecostal believers of Mexican origin . Although Latino Protestantism in ...
... Templo Rey . Affiliated with the Assemblies of God denomination in the U.S. , which claims a membership of about 2.3 million , 3 Templo Rey is now is home to 300 Pentecostal believers of Mexican origin . Although Latino Protestantism in ...
Page 144
... Iglesia Adventista and Templo Rey come out of similar , but not identical environments . Both congregations are entirely Spanish speaking and evangelical . Both have become a religious family , a place of intimacy and community ...
... Iglesia Adventista and Templo Rey come out of similar , but not identical environments . Both congregations are entirely Spanish speaking and evangelical . Both have become a religious family , a place of intimacy and community ...
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... Templo Rey who participated in my focus group . Ruth will no doubt spend some time in Megan's ESL class . As so many other field workers have done , I venture out on the thin ice of personal involvement . After discovering that they had ...
... Templo Rey who participated in my focus group . Ruth will no doubt spend some time in Megan's ESL class . As so many other field workers have done , I venture out on the thin ice of personal involvement . After discovering that they had ...
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