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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... coming up in this country ? D : no I don't think so cause I mean you need both languages , Spanish and American , cause in every job they tell me do you know both languages , I say yes and they say well " you're hired " , cause we need ...
... coming up in this country ? D : no I don't think so cause I mean you need both languages , Spanish and American , cause in every job they tell me do you know both languages , I say yes and they say well " you're hired " , cause we need ...
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... coming of Christ in 1844. As the church evolved it maintained the belief in the immanence of Christ's return . Adventist eschatology still embodies a cosmology of the struggle between good and evil , with its final resolution being the ...
... coming of Christ in 1844. As the church evolved it maintained the belief in the immanence of Christ's return . Adventist eschatology still embodies a cosmology of the struggle between good and evil , with its final resolution being the ...
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... coming ... and we used to go as a family , everybody . K : So you had friends at the Lawrence church ? V : Oh no , just my family friends . K : Family friends . Okay so some family , some of your relatives became members there before ...
... coming ... and we used to go as a family , everybody . K : So you had friends at the Lawrence church ? V : Oh no , just my family friends . K : Family friends . Okay so some family , some of your relatives became members there before ...
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