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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... church property to build off- farm farmworker housing . The church held town meetings on the matter . Many community members opposed the project and attacked it . One parishioner remembered that during one really packed meeting Anglo ...
... church property to build off- farm farmworker housing . The church held town meetings on the matter . Many community members opposed the project and attacked it . One parishioner remembered that during one really packed meeting Anglo ...
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... 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 started ...
... 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 started ...
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... church rather than being converts , and from the fact of their unprecedented upward mobility ( for example Latino ... church , like you should go to church and you should go to church . I just tell ' em like , well , if I want to go to ...
... church rather than being converts , and from the fact of their unprecedented upward mobility ( for example Latino ... church , like you should go to church and you should go to church . I just tell ' em like , well , if I want to go to ...
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