1. Cultural explanation and the question of intergroup life -- 2. Culture and ethnicity: A crossnational contrast -- 3. The meeting of dominant and minority cultures: Integration vs. separatism -- 4. Miscegenation and intermarriage in the formation of society -- 5. The psychosocial aspect: Group consciousness and cultural identity -- 6. Revisiting secularization: Religion as implicit normative system -- 7. The church in Brazil: Folk Catholicism and ethnic assimilation -- 8. The Church in the United States: Calvinistic Protestantism and ethnic assimilation -- 9. Conclusions
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