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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..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Congregations
- Religious denominations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Serbian Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1996
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1960s
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1890s-1960s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Djuro J. Vrga and Frank J. Fahey
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-89)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74031171
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Serbian Americans