Mark T Mulder

Shades of White Flight

Evangelical Congregations and Urban Departure

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Produktbeschreibung

Since World War II, historians have analysed a phenomenon of "white flight” plaguing the urban areas of the northern US. One of the most interesting cases of "white flight” occurred in the Chicago neighbourhoods of Englewood and Roseland, where seven entire church congregations left the city in the 1960s and 70s. Mark T. Mulder investigates the migration of these Chicago church members, revealing how these churches not only failed to inhibit white flight, but actually facilitated the congregations' departure.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780813564821
• ISBN-10: 0813564824
• Artikelnr.: 41754740

Autorenporträt

MARK T. MULDER is an associate professor of sociology at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.   

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps
Preface and Acknowledgments
 
1   Introduction: The Irony of Religion and Racial Segregation
 
Part One   The Evolution of an Evangelical Denomination
 
2   Mobility and Insularity
3   Shuttered in Chicago
4   A Case Study of the Closed Community: The Disrupted Integration of
Timothy Christian School
 
Part Two   City and Neighborhood Change
 
5   Chicago: A Brief History of African American In-Migration and White
Reaction
6   The Black Belt Reaches Englewood and Roseland
 
Part Three   Congregations Respond to Neighborhood Change
 
7   The Insignificance of Place
8   The Significance of Polity
9   Second Roseland (CRC) Leaves the City
10   A Contrast between Sister Denominations
11   Conclusion: The Continuing Resonance of Religion in Race and Urban
Patterns
 
Notes
Bibliography
Index