THE ROLE OF RELIGION

Role of Religion in the Ethnic Identity of Mexican Americans

Role of Religion in the Ethnic Identity of Mexican Americans

Many sociological investigations have administered with the general locality of Catholic-Protestant differences. Weber's Protestant Ethic thesis has granted increase to a concern in the communal penalties of devout membership. The well-known study of Len ski (1963) demonstrated significant sociological dissimilarities can still be attributed to devout differences. In detail, belief was discovered to, be a more influential component than socioeconomic status. However, the validity of this outcome has been argued (Schuman, 1971). Agriculture and churches, Alan j. W shows how religious and social contexts of agricultural workers and their leaders and society in general help or hinder these two key actions.

In the mid-1960s, Cesar Chavez led the La traffic in California Cause in boycott harvest, melons and collectors in South Texas is a blow to challenge unfair labor and wage practices in both countries.

Watt explores the ways in which liberal Protestantism North expression, transplanted to California, and in conjunction with the pro-labor wing of the Catholic Church and the legacy of Mexican folk piety, provided fertile ground for the growth of the broad support for Chavez and his organization. In the end, La Cause achieved victory in collective bargaining, including historic contract between California agribusiness and farm workers.

Movement did not fare as well in Texas, where the combination of weak trade union leadership, locally more conservative Protestant Southern spirit measures the Texas Rangers are a bad omen. However, the overall Chicano/movement eventually took permanent root, because of the struggle of workers (Watts, 2010).

Watt offers a thorough examination of the complex interactions between religious traditions, social heritage and how these factors influence the course and outcome of these two innovative campaigns La Cause (Watts, 2010). Nevertheless, no one gravely inquiries the detail that communal penalties manage draw from devout membership. A distinct but associated dimension is the inquiry of the consequences of a devout versus a secular learning for constituents of the identical denomination. Again, there has been no need of study in this locality (e.g., Rossi and Rossi, 1961; Len ski, 1963; Dressler and West off, 1963; West off and Putin, 1966; Greeley and Rossi, 1966). In general, these investigations disclose behavioral and attitudinal dissimilarities between Catholics who join a parochial school and those who manage not. Assumptions are often made about the penalties of a certain devout members or devout education. One common demonstration has to manage with the retarding result attributed to Catholicism on the assimilation method (Warner and Sole, 1945). Mexican Americans have been especially singled out

The book treats the history of men and women, whose belief compels them to stand up with Bill and pushing various churches, go very traditional spiritual Ministry of Gospel and institutional support La Cause (Watts, 2010). The author tells these stories with the details and at the same time protects-in-context and overview, make book attractive not only for lovers of history and ...