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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... convert them to Adventism . But no longer do they darken the door of that church , or any other . Victoria , at the age of 15 , made a decision to be baptized by immersion and officially join the Seventh - day Adventist church . This ...
... convert them to Adventism . But no longer do they darken the door of that church , or any other . Victoria , at the age of 15 , made a decision to be baptized by immersion and officially join the Seventh - day Adventist church . This ...
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... convert to Pentecostalism , but grew up " in the church . ” Their frustration with what they see as an unreasonably strict religion of the grandmothers is well articulated . They recognize that five minutes away there is an English ...
... convert to Pentecostalism , but grew up " in the church . ” Their frustration with what they see as an unreasonably strict religion of the grandmothers is well articulated . They recognize that five minutes away there is an English ...
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... converts , and from the fact of their unprecedented upward mobility ( for example Latino youth in Adventist schools are more likely to attend college than non - Adventist Latino youth [ Hernandez 1995 ] ) . Although this is less true ...
... converts , and from the fact of their unprecedented upward mobility ( for example Latino youth in Adventist schools are more likely to attend college than non - Adventist Latino youth [ Hernandez 1995 ] ) . Although this is less true ...
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