Changing Bureaucracy and Social Power In a Chicago Ukrainian Parish

In 1898 two Ukrainian immigrant families settled in a prairie section of Chicago known as Burnside. They were soon followed by friends and relatives who in time established a church around which, along with other associations, there developed an ethnic community (in both an ecological and interest sense) of several hundred families. The church possesses a singular feature in its adherence to the Eastern Rite. Almost without exception, the supporters and members of the church had been peasants in Europe who after their arrival in the United States came to Chicago where they became industrial workers and unskilled day-laborers. Their changed economic position, along with other factors contributing towards "assimilation" of American culture, vastly altered not only the roles of church and priest in their daily lives, but their attitudes towards religious phenomena. Moreover, it also altered the structure and functions of the church as an association

Bureaucracy · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Immigration · Political science · Politics · Position (finance) · Power (physics) · Rite · Rite of passage · Sociology · Ukrainian · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Soviet and Russian History