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Choi, Charles W. and Deborah Berhó. 2016. Ethnic identity maintenance within the Latino-American church: a structuration perspective. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research 45 (2) : 91–107.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

The Latino ethnic/immigrant church holds a notable role in preserving its congregants' ethnic identity. Using structuration theory, this qualitative inquiry explores how the church activities affect its members and how an individual might add to the Latino church's cultural structure (i.e., duality of structure). Interviews of 25 pastors from Spanish-speaking congregations in both urban and rural milieus in Oregon ended in various themes covering the original church planting, the denominational structure, the apparition of a novel multi-ethnic cultural identity, generational contrasts, and the impact of Spanish.