Book
Changes and socio-religious conflict in an ethnic minority group: the Serbian Orthodox Church in America
R and E Research Associates • San Francisco, Calif. • Published In 1975 • Pages:
By: Vrga, Djuro J., Fahey, Frank J..
Abstract
This paper presents an in-depth study of the ethno-religious factionalism that developed in the Serbian Orthodox Church in America in the early 1960s. The author's findings, based on interview data of a randomly stratified sample of 84 members of the Holy Resurrection parish in Chicago, Illinois, and generalized to the Serbian minority population throughout the United States, demonstrate '…that intra-group conflicts, especially the latent ones, may arise as a consequence of differential adjustment of various segments of the group to the conditions in the larger society' (p. 1). Vrga shows how social status, political differences, ethnic factors going back to provincial origins in Yugoslavia, and variations in education, all are significant factors in Serbian minority factionalism in the United States.
- HRAF PubDate
- 1997
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Types
- Ethnologist
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1996
- Field Date
- 1960s
- Coverage Date
- 1890s-1960s
- Coverage Place
- United States
- Notes
- by Djuro J. Vrga and Frank J. Fahey
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-89)
- LCCN
- 74031171
- LCSH
- Serbian Americans