5. “God Doesn’t Ask What Language I Pray In”: Community and Culture on Chicago’s Southwest Side

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
5. Part I. Introduction
6. Metropolitan Chicago: Places Of Public Religion & Urban Transformation 2
7. 1. The New Context of Urban Religion 3
8. Part II. Religion in a City of Neighborhoods
9. Pilsen 28
10. 2. Hispanic Immigrant Churches and the Construction of Ethnicity 29
11. 3. Place, Race, and History: The Social Mission of Downtown Churches 57
12. 4. The Churches and the Poor in a “Ghetto Underclass”Neighborhood 83
13. 5. “God Doesn’t Ask What Language I Pray In”: Community and Culture on Chicago’s Southwest Side 107
14. 6. Communities and Enclaves:Where Jews, Christians, Hindus, and Muslims Share the Neighborhoods 133
15. 7. “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ’Round”: The Politics of Race and the New Black Middle-Class Religion 163
16. 8. Change, Stress, and Congregations in an Edge-City Technoburb 187
17. Part III. Religion and the New Metropolitan Context
18. Residences of Old St. Patrick's Member Households 212
19. 9. Catholic Spirituality in a New Urban Church 213
20. 10. Recent Immigrant Religions and the Restructuring of Metropolitan Chicago 239
21. 11. Catholic Planning for a Multicultural Metropolis, 1982–1996 269
22. Part IV. Epilogue
23. Epilogue. Building Religious Communities at the Turn of the Century 293
24. Appendix. Religious Organizations Studied and Names of Principal Contact Persons 309
25. Bibliography 319
26. Contributors 343
27. Index 345