03650nam 22006255 450 991048009800332120210716221429.00-8147-7273-00-8147-9026-710.18574/9780814790267(CKB)2670000000167898(EBL)866097(OCoLC)784884511(SSID)ssj0000606828(PQKBManifestationID)11357284(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606828(PQKBWorkID)10582768(PQKB)11132043(MiAaPQ)EBC866097(OCoLC)794701040(MdBmJHUP)muse10436(DE-B1597)548673(DE-B1597)9780814790267(EXLCZ)99267000000016789820200723h20052005 fg 0engurnn#---|un|utxtccrAgainst All Odds The Struggle for Racial Integration in Religious Organizations /Brad Christerson, Michael Oluf Emerson, Korie L. EdwardsNew York, NY :New York University Press,[2005]©20051 online resource (208 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-2223-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-192) and index.Front matter --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 AuthorsReligious 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.Religious institutionsUnited StatesCase studiesRace relationsReligious aspectsChristianityCase studiesUnited StatesRace relationsCase studiesElectronic books.Religious institutionsRace relationsReligious aspectsChristianity277.3/083/089Christerson Bradauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1042754Edwards Korie L.authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autEmerson Michael Olufauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910480098003321Against All Odds2467223UNINA