A Study of Catholic Religious Practices of Puerto Rican Migrants in the United States
Abstract
Theoretical discussions on immigrant groups in the United States have often generated more heat than light. Extremists have clouded the issue with appeals to the emotions. Some stress the necessity of complete assimilation. Others plead for the purity of the native stock. Underlying these broad sweeps of opinion there are found complex problems in the meeting of different cultures. Our older immigrants have been the object of painstaking analysis. The dynamic processes of assimilation, spinning a new web of inter-personal relations, have been examined and tentative theories have been proposed; unanimity, however, does not prevail. Efforts to isolate specific influences of the host culture on the minority group have not met with universal success. There were changes of a cultural nature within the immigrant groups and these were observable. It is only by further probing that the mechanisms at work bringing about the change can be uncovered.
Subject Area
Religion
Recommended Citation
Muldowney, James F, "A Study of Catholic Religious Practices of Puerto Rican Migrants in the United States" (1956). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI28623299.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI28623299
