Kathleen Garces-Foley

Crossing the Ethnic Divide (eBook, ePUB)

The Multiethnic Church on a Mission

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

While religious communities often stress the universal nature of their beliefs, it remains true that people choose to worship alongside those they identify with most easily. Multiethnic churches are rare in the United States, but as American attitudes toward diversity change, so too does the appeal of a church that offers diversity. Joining such a community, however, is uncomfortable-worshippers must literally cross the barriers of ethnic difference by entering the religious space of the ethnically "other." Through the story of one multiethnic congregation in Southern California, Kathleen Garces-Foley examines what it means to confront the challenges in forming a religious community across ethnic divisions and attracting a more varied membership.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199885961
• Artikelnr.: 42620352

Autorenporträt

Kathleen Garces-Foley is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Marymount University specializing in contemporary American religious life. In addition to research on the growth of multiethnic churches, she studies immigrant religious communities and American death practices and is the editor of Death and Religion in a Changing World.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Looking for the Promised Land
Chapter One: For the Healing of the Nations
Chapter Two: The Racial Reconciliation Movement
Chapter Three: The Reconciliation Generation
Chapter Four: Becoming a Multiethnic Church
Chapter Five: The Dividing Lines
Chapter Six: The Culture of Discomfort
Chapter Seven: The Multiethnic Church in Society
Appendix A: Methods
Appendix B: Comparing Models of Ethnically Diverse Congregations
Notes
Bibliography
Index