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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... diverse society , " my hope is that this work will increase our understanding of the place of ethnic and immigrant religion at the beginning of the twenty - first century . The earlier empirical work that has framed the study of ...
... diverse society , " my hope is that this work will increase our understanding of the place of ethnic and immigrant religion at the beginning of the twenty - first century . The earlier empirical work that has framed the study of ...
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... diverse than people realize . Many of those settling in Ciderville have been in farm labor for generations , and while many trace their roots to farmworkers from the Rio Grande Valley or Mexico , they have been joined by a growing ...
... diverse than people realize . Many of those settling in Ciderville have been in farm labor for generations , and while many trace their roots to farmworkers from the Rio Grande Valley or Mexico , they have been joined by a growing ...
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... Diversity There is evidence that in the 1990s the proportion of Latinos moving seasonally and permanently to Michigan directly from Mexico increased compared with Mexican- Americans from the Rio Grande Valley or Florida . Furthermore ...
... Diversity There is evidence that in the 1990s the proportion of Latinos moving seasonally and permanently to Michigan directly from Mexico increased compared with Mexican- Americans from the Rio Grande Valley or Florida . Furthermore ...
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