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Author Sinitiere, Phillip Luke, author

Title Christians and the color line : race and religion after Divided by faith / Philip Luke Sinitiere and J. Russell Hawkins
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2014

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Contents Section 1. Looking back : failures and successes in erasing the color line. Neoevangelicalism and the problem of race in postwar America / Miles S. Mullin, II -- Healing the mystical body: Catholic attempts to overcome the racial divide in Chicago, 1930-1948 / Karen Joy Johnson -- "Glimmers of hope": progressive evangelicals and racism, 1965-2000 / Brantley W. Gasaway -- "Buttcheek to buttcheek in the pew": interracial relationalism in a Mennonite congregation, 1957-2010 / Tobin Miller Shearer -- Still divided by faith? : evangelical religion and the problem of race in America, 1977-2010 / Ryon J. Cobb -- Section 2. Looking forward : possibilities for overcoming the color line. Worshipping to stay the same: avoiding the local to maintain solidarity / Mark T. Mulder -- Beyond body counts: sex, individualism, and the segregated shape of twentieth-century evangelicalism / Edward J. Blum -- Color-conscious structure-blind assimilation: how Asian American Christians can unintentionally maintain the racial divide / Jerry Z. Park -- Knotted together: identity and community in a multiracial church / Erica Ryu Wong -- Much ado about nothing? : rethinking the efficacy of multiracial churches for racial reconciliation / Korie L. Edwards -- Theological afterword: The call to blackness in American Christianity / Darryl Scriven
Summary Christians and the Color Line analyzes the complex entanglement of race and religion in the United States. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples of racialized religion, the essays in this volume consider the problem of race both in Christian congregations and in American society as a whole. Belying the notion that a post-racial America has arrived, congregations in the US are showing an unprecedented degree of interest in overcoming the deep racial divisions that exist within American Protestantism. In one recent poll, for instance, nearly 70 percent of church leaders expressed a strong desire for their congregations to become racially and culturally diverse. To date, reality has eluded this professed desire as fewer than 10 percent of American Protestant churches have actually achieved multiracial status. Employing innovative research from sociology, history, philosophy, and religious studies, the contributors to this volume use Michael Emerson and Christian Smith's groundbreaking study Divided by Faith (Oxford, 2000) as their starting point to acknowledge important historical, sociological, and theological causations for racial divisions in Christian communities. Collectively, however, these scholars also offer constructive steps that Christians of all races might take to overcome the color line and usher in a new era of cross-racial engagement. -- Book jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Emerson, Michael O., 1965- Divided by faith
Racism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Racism -- United States
Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Reconciliation -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Evangelicalism -- United States
Evangelicalism
Race relations
Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Racism
Racism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Reconciliation -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author Hawkins, J. Russell, editor
ISBN 9780199369362
0199369364