LEADER 03469nam 2200637 450 001 9910790162903321 005 20240113030928.0 010 $a0-8147-7273-0 010 $a0-8147-9026-7 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814790267 035 $a(CKB)2670000000167898 035 $a(EBL)866097 035 $a(OCoLC)784884511 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606828 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11357284 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606828 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10582768 035 $a(PQKB)11132043 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC866097 035 $a(OCoLC)794701040 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10436 035 $a(DE-B1597)548673 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814790267 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31009368 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31009368 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000167898 100 $a20240113d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|un|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAgainst All Odds $eThe Struggle for Racial Integration in Religious Organizations /$fBrad Christerson, Michael Oluf Emerson, and Korie Little Edwards 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cNew York University Press,$d[2005] 210 4$dİ2005 215 $a1 online resource (208 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8147-2223-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. Against All Odds --$t2. The Need for Belonging --$t3. A Place to Call Home --$t4. White Flight or Flux? --$t5. Embrace and Division --$t6. Together and Separate --$t7. Jesus Is Color-Blind --$t8. What We Learned --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex --$tAbout the Authors 330 $aReligious 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. 606 $aRace relations$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations$vCase studies 615 0$aRace relations$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 676 $a277.3083089 700 $aChristerson$b Brad$01495195 702 $aEmerson$b Michael O.$f1965- 702 $aEdwards$b Korie L. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790162903321 996 $aAgainst All Odds$93740413 997 $aUNINA