Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: Thinking Critically about Culture, Race, and Color -- 1. Race: Critical Thinking and Transformative Possibilities -- 2. Science and the Myth of Biological Race -- 3. Race, Ethnicity, and Color among Latinos in the United States -- 4. Culture Matters: Diversity in the United States and Its Implications -- 5. Developing Multicultural Competency -- PART II: Encountering the Other in Ethnic and Racialized Worlds -- 6.Western Images of Others and Otherness -- 7. Crossing the Color Line: A Brief Historical Survey of Race Relations in American Evangelical Christianity -- 8. Sharing the Gospel in a Racially Segregated Society: The Case of Columbia Bible College, 1923-1963 -- 9. "Becoming Conservative, Becoming White?": Black Evangelicals and the Para-Church Movement -- PART III: Using and Abusing the Bible in Ethnic and Racial Contexts -- 10. The Sword of Truth in a Sea of Lies: The Theology of Hate -- 11. Family and Table-Fellowship in the Writings of Luke -- 12. Church as a Lifestyle: Distinctive or Typical? -- 13. The Samaritans: A Biblical-Theological Mirror for Understanding Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Identity? -- 14. The Bible and the Communion of Saints: A Churchly Plural Reading of Scripture -- PART IV: Engaging Racial and Ethnic Realities in Congregational Settings -- 15. New Immigrant Filipinos Bring Changes to Their Parish, -- 16. Constructing New Intergenerational Ties, Cultures, and Identities among Korean American Christians: A Congregational Case Study -- 17. Divergent Worship Practices in the Sunday Morning Hour: Analysis of an "Interracial" Church Merger Attempt -- 18. Power and Reconciliation in an Urban Church: The Case of New City Fellowship -- 19. An Applied Research Strategy for Christian Organizations -- Conclusion.

Appendix 1 Timeline: Race and Ethnicity in the United States -- Appendix 2 Resources for Further Reading and Study -- Scripture Index -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

This collection of all-new essays is meant to enable those who are engaged in diversity initiatives to understand the ways in which Christian communities, practices, and discourses have been impacted by racial ideologies. It also suggests how Christian resources and motivations can provide significant correctives to ethnic and racial prejudices, animosities, boundaries, and hierarchies of wealth and power. Written by an interethnic and interdisciplinary team of scholars representing diverse disciplines, and the product of a long-term study funded by the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, this volume will meet a pressing need and set a new standard for the discussion of race and ethnicity in the Christian context.

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