De Facto Congregationalism and Socioeconomic Mobility in Laotian and Vietnamese Immigrant Communities: A Study of Religious Institutions and Economic Change

Sociologist R. Stephen Warner has recently proposed that immigrant religious organizations in the United States tend to take on a de facto congregational form. By this, he means that they tend to become voluntary gatherings with lay involvement and control and professionalized clergies. In this stud...

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Authors: Bankston, Carl L. (Author) ; Zhou, Min (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer 2000
In: Review of religious research
Year: 2000, Volume: 41, Issue: 4, Pages: 453-470
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