Networks and Religious Communities Among Salvadoran Immigrants in San Francisco, Phoenix, and Washington, D.C.
Year: 2000
Type: article
Abstract: In this paper I seek to examine the place of religious institutions in the lives of Salvadoran immigrants, particularly how these immigrants view their links with and participation in the church in light of the conditions in which they live.Religious rituals infuse with transcendental meaning important events in the immigrants' lives, but religious institutions also respond in practical terms to the immigrants' needs and afflictions.This observation is not exceptional in the cases I present in this piece, however, relative to the importance of religion in the immigrants' lives, contemporary immigration scholars have not focused enough on this aspect of
Author: Cecilia Menjívar
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Arizona State University
OpenAlex ID: W2766250838