Churches, Blackness, and Contested Multiculturalism [[electronic resource] ] : Europe, Africa, and North America / / edited by R. Smith, W. Ackah, A. Reddie

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2014.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (309 p.)
• Disciplina: 270.8/3
• Soggetto topico: Religion and sociology; Sociology; Ethnicity; Religions; African Americans; Sociology of Religion; Gender Studies; Ethnicity Studies; Social Aspects of Religion; Comparative Religion; African American Culture
• Persona (resp. second.): SmithR; AckahW; ReddieA
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-280) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Part I Foundational Dimensions of Nascent Twentieth-Century Multiculturalisms; 1 Anti-Black Problematics in Imperial and Contemporary British Christianity; 2 Historical and Contemporary Perspectiveson Multiculturalisms and Black Christianities in Canada; 3 The Changing Roles of Women in the Church: A Case Study of Women in Calabar, Nigeria, 1900-2000; 4 William Stuart Nelson and the Interfaith Origins of the Civil Rights Movement; Part II Expanding Contemporary Diversities and Entrenched Majority Cultures ; 5 The Significance of Multicultural Churches in Britain: A Case Study of Crofton Park Baptist Church6 Churches, Multiculturalism, and Justice in Canada: An Anglican Perspective; 7 The Changing Demographics of Global Christianity: The Case of West African Immigrants within the Pacific Southwest Mennonite ; 8 Balancing Christianity, Culture, and Race:African Pentecostals in Italy; 9 Identity and Ecumenical Partnership of Churches of African Origin in Germany; 10 Ministry as Bridge Building: Facilitating Culturally Diverse Faith Communities in South Africa ; 11 The Language of "Diversity" in Reconstructing Whiteness in the Dutch Reformed Church12 A Multicultural Theology of Difference: A Practical Theological Perspective; Part III Resistant Blackness, Persistent Poverty, and Hesitant Multiculturalisms; 13 London's Burning: Riots, Gangs, and Moral Formation of Young People; 14 Life-Giving Assets at a Johannesburg Informal Settlement: Black Faith and the False Gods of Multiculturalism in the Twent; 15 Inspired Hymns as a Belief System in the Kimbanguist Church: A Revelation of the Meanings of Blackness* ; 16 Whose Black Church? Voices of Oppression and Resistance in Response to the Murder of a "Gay" Black Teenager17 Black Churches, Moral Panic, and the Empowerment of Black Youth in the Era of Hip-Hop; Bibliography; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume assesses contemporary church responses to multicultural diversity and resisted categories of social difference, with a central focus on whether or how racial, ethnic, religious, sexual, and gender differences are validated by churches (and especially black churches) torn between competing inclusive and exclusive tendencies.
• Titolo autorizzato: Churches, Blackness, and Contested Multiculturalism
• ISBN: 1-349-48934-4; 1-137-38638-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808999203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice