03469nam 2200637 450 991081123620332120240113030928.00-8147-7273-00-8147-9026-710.18574/9780814790267(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(MiAaPQ)EBC31009368(Au-PeEL)EBL31009368(EXLCZ)99267000000016789820240113d2005 uy 0engurnn#---|un|utxtccrAgainst All Odds The Struggle for Racial Integration in Religious Organizations /Brad Christerson, Michael Oluf Emerson, and Korie Little EdwardsFirst edition.New York :New York University Press,[2005]©20051 online resource (208 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-2223-7 Includes bibliographical references 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.Race relationsReligious aspectsChristianityUnited StatesRace relationsCase studiesRace relationsReligious aspectsChristianity.277.3083089Christerson Brad1613632Emerson Michael O.1965-Edwards Korie L.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811236203321Against All Odds3943027UNINA