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3 Int'l Migration Rev. 3 (1969)

handle is hein.journals/imgratv3 and id is 1 raw text is: Three Generations of Italians in New York City: Their Religious Acculturation by Nicholas John Russo* Renewed awareness in ethnic groups as well identified, persisting and active participants in the political and social life of American so- ciety imposes a new task on the social scien- tists to define better and more cogently meas- ure the implications of pluralism and integra- tion. This article by Russo-presenting the findings of his doctoral dissertation: The Re- ligious Acculturation of the Italians in New York City-evidences the fast disappearance of the cultural identity of an immigrant group in relation to their rural religious tradition and behavior. At the same time, it notes the sur- vival of social identity. In the light of this evidence, we can ask ourselves if ethnic reli- gious institutions might have led the immi- grants to religious forms more in keeping with their new environment and how the accultura- tion described should be evaluated. Above all, we are forced to search for those variables which maintain the ethnic groups' identity even in the third generation. In this way, the process of the inclusion into American society of different ethnic and reli- gious groups may reveal some clues for the more complex test of inclusion of different racial groups. American sociologists have long been absorbed by the processes of assimilation and acculturation which successive waves of American im- migrants have undergone. Due to the variety of methodologies, theories, and concepts applied to study in this area, there are many divergent find- ings. With regard to the religious practices and attitudes of the immi- grants and their descendants, it is not certain, for example, whether Ital- * Fr. Nicholas John Russo, M.F.A., Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology at Cathe- dral College, Douglaston, New York.

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