Against All Odds : The Struggle for Racial Integration in Religious Organizations / Michael Oluf Emerson, Brad Christerson, Korie Little Edwards.
2005
BR517
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Against All Odds : The Struggle for Racial Integration in Religious Organizations / Michael Oluf Emerson, Brad Christerson, Korie Little Edwards.
Author
Christerson, Brad, author.
ISBN
9780814790267
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2005]
Copyright
©2005
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814790267.001.0001 doi
Call Number
BR517
Dewey Decimal Classification
277.3083089
Summary
Religious institutions are among the most segregated organizations in American society. This segregation has long been a troubling issue among scholars and religious leaders alike. Despite attempts to address this racial divide, integrated churches are very difficult to maintain over time. Why is this so? How can organizations incorporate separate racial, ethnic, and cultural groups? Should they? And what are the costs and rewards for people and groups in such organizations? Following up on Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith's award-winning Divided by Faith, Against All Odds breaks new ground by exploring the beliefs, practices, and structures which allow integrated religious organizations to survive and thrive despite their difficulties. Based on six in-depth ethnographies of churches and other Christian organizations, this engaging work draws on numerous interviews, so that readers can hear first-hand the joys and frustrations which arise from actually experiencing racial integration. The book gives an inside, visceral sense of what it is like to be part of a multiracial religious organization as well as a theoretical understanding of these experiences.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Against All Odds
2. The Need for Belonging
3. A Place to Call Home
4. White Flight or Flux?
5. Embrace and Division
6. Together and Separate
7. Jesus Is Color-Blind
8. What We Learned
Notes
References
Index
About the Authors
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Against All Odds
2. The Need for Belonging
3. A Place to Call Home
4. White Flight or Flux?
5. Embrace and Division
6. Together and Separate
7. Jesus Is Color-Blind
8. What We Learned
Notes
References
Index
About the Authors