Latinx Catholic Financial Giving and Clergy Responses: Understanding Stewardship Frames
Scholars have demonstrated that Latinx Catholics give less money to their parishes than their non-Latinx counterparts. However, we do not know why this gap exists, and so Catholic clergy are left unsure as to how to respond. There are several pastoral concerns that emerge because of this gap; these...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Catholic Historical Society
[2020]
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American catholic studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 131, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-24 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KBQ North America KDB Roman Catholic Church NCE Business ethics ZB Sociology |
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| Summary: | Scholars have demonstrated that Latinx Catholics give less money to their parishes than their non-Latinx counterparts. However, we do not know why this gap exists, and so Catholic clergy are left unsure as to how to respond. There are several pastoral concerns that emerge because of this gap; these have significance now and especially in the future, as U.S. Catholicism is becoming increasingly Latinx. Using interviews with pastors, high-giving Latinx, and low-giving Latinx, this paper explores the cultural understandings of stewardship among Latinx Catholics and examines the strategies pastors of predominantly Latinx parishes use to encourage giving. The results indicate that pastors and parishioners have significant overlap in their stewardship frames; both use"Receive then Give" frames. However, there is also dissonance in other aspects of their frames.Pastors place more emphasis on financial obstacles to giving while lay Catholics indicate thathistorical factors as well as poor perception of their parish's financial needs are the biggest obstacles. This paper concludes by discussing the implications of the findings, including recommended practices to increase Latinx giving. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8534 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American catholic studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/acs.2020.0017 |