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 113
... experienced at the individual level than communally -- as an expression of family solidarity . The constraints imposed by a cohesive family unit tilt her experience toward the collective - expressive mode - tempered as they are by the ...
... experienced at the individual level than communally -- as an expression of family solidarity . The constraints imposed by a cohesive family unit tilt her experience toward the collective - expressive mode - tempered as they are by the ...
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... experience of the Meyerton High's second - generation Latino students is common among non - white second- generation youth who eventually encounter a racialized society in which they experience pressure from both co- ethnics and peers ...
... experience of the Meyerton High's second - generation Latino students is common among non - white second- generation youth who eventually encounter a racialized society in which they experience pressure from both co- ethnics and peers ...
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... experience the congregation as a kind of extended family . Aside from the spiritual experience ( which for some was intense ) , the greatest overall salience that the churches had for youth was that they were extensions of familia ...
... experience the congregation as a kind of extended family . Aside from the spiritual experience ( which for some was intense ) , the greatest overall salience that the churches had for youth was that they were extensions of familia ...
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