Churches and Charity in the Immigrant City: Religion, Immigration, and Civic Engagement in Miami

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Acknowledgments vii 1 Religion, Immigration, and Civic Engagement 1 ALEX STEPICK, TERRY REY, AND SARAH J. MAHLER PART ONE Charismatic Leaders and Linking Civic Social Capital 2 So Close and Yet So Far Away: Comparing Civic Social Capital in Two Cuban Congregations 41 SARAH J. MAHLER 3 Refugee Catholicism in Little Haiti: Miami’s Notre Dame d’Haiti Catholic Church 72 TERRY REY AND ALEX STEPICK 4 Politics and Prayer in West Perrine: Civic Engagement in the Black Church 92 SU OLTMAN FINK PART TWO Service and Volunteerism and Bridging Civic Social Capital 5 Unidos en la Fe: Transnational Civic Social Engagement between Two Cuban Catholic Parishes 119 KATRIN HANSING 6 La Catedral del Exilio: A Nicaraguan Congregation in a Cuban Church 132 ISABEL DEL PINO-ALLEN CONTENTS v 7 Black Churches and the Environment in Miami 151 EILEEN M. SMITH-CAVROS PART THREE Religious and Spiritual Activities and Bonding Social Capital 8 Youth and Charity in a Sweetwater Parish: Our Lady of Divine Providence Church 171 AIDIL OSCARIZ 9 Faith in the Fields: Mexican Marianism in Miami-Dade County 190 NOEMÍ BÁEZ, MARÍA DE LOS ANGÈLES REY, AND TERRY REY 10 The Struggle for Civic Social Capital in West Indian Churches 208 TERUYUKI TSUJI, CHRISTINE HO, AND ALEX STEPICK 11 Religious Practice and Civic Social Capital among Miami Youth 231 YVES LABISSIERE, ANN REEDER GORACZKO, AND ALEX STEPICK 12 Conclusions: Religious Leadership and Civic Social Capital 250 ALEX STEPICK, SARAH J. MAHLER, AND TERRY REY Contributors 273 Index 277 CONTENTS vi ...