LEADER 05264nam 2200721 450 001 9910460154503321 005 20220208183156.0 010 $a0-8135-6484-0 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813564845 035 $a(CKB)3710000000376797 035 $a(EBL)3032159 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001457861 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11883825 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001457861 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11443873 035 $a(PQKB)10636712 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3032159 035 $a(OCoLC)905349655 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse45495 035 $a(DE-B1597)526050 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813564845 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3032159 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11033582 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL209424 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000376797 100 $a20150330h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aShades of white flight $eevangelical congregations and urban departure /$fMark T. Mulder 210 1$aNew Brunswick, New Jersey :$cRutgers University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (198 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-6483-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tList of Maps --$tPreface and Acknowledgments --$t1. Introduction: The Irony of Religion and Racial Segregation --$tPart I: The Evolution of an Evangelical Denomination --$t2. Mobility and Insularity --$t3. Shuttered in Chicago --$t4. A Case Study of the Closed Community: The Disrupted Integration of Timothy Christian School --$tPart II: City and Neighborhood Change --$t5. Chicago: A Brief History of African American In-Migration and White Reaction --$t6. The Black Belt Reaches Englewood and Roseland --$tPart III: Congregations Respond to Neighborhood Change --$t7. The Insignificance of Place --$t8. The Significance of Polity --$t9. Second Roseland (CRC) Leaves the City --$t10. The Contrast between Sister Denominations --$t11. Conclusion: The Continuing Resonance of Religion in Race and Urban Patterns --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tABOUT THE AUTHOR 330 $aSince World War II, historians have analyzed a phenomenon of "white flight" plaguing the urban areas of the northern United States. One of the most interesting cases of "white flight" occurred in the Chicago neighborhoods of Englewood and Roseland, where seven entire church congregations from one denomination, the Christian Reformed Church, left the city in the 1960's and 1970's and relocated their churches to nearby suburbs. In Shades of White Flight, sociologist 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. Using a wealth of both archival and interview data, Mulder sheds light on the forces that shaped these midwestern neighborhoods and shows that, surprisingly, evangelical religion fostered both segregation as well as the decline of urban stability. Indeed, the Roseland and Englewood stories show how religion-often used to foster community and social connectedness-can sometimes help to disintegrate neighborhoods. Mulder describes how the Dutch CRC formed an insular social circle that focused on the local church and Christian school-instead of the local park or square or market-as the center point of the community. Rather than embrace the larger community, the CRC subculture sheltered themselves and their families within these two places. Thus it became relatively easy-when black families moved into the neighborhood-to sell the church and school and relocate in the suburbs. This is especially true because, in these congregations, authority rested at the local church level and in fact they owned the buildings themselves. Revealing how a dominant form of evangelical church polity-congregationalism-functioned within the larger phenomenon of white flight, Shades of White Flight lends new insights into the role of religion and how it can affect social change, not always for the better. 606 $aEvangelicalism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aRace$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 606 $aIdentification (Religion) 606 $aRacism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$zIllinois$zChicago$xHistory$y20th century$vCase studies 606 $aWhite people$zIllinois$zChicago$xMigrations$xHistory$y20th century$vCase studies 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEvangelicalism$xHistory 615 0$aRace$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 615 0$aIdentification (Religion) 615 0$aRacism$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xHistory 615 0$aWhite people$xMigrations$xHistory 676 $a305.80097309/04 700 $aMulder$b Mark T.$f1973-$01035078 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460154503321 996 $aShades of white flight$92454587 997 $aUNINA