People of the Dream : Multiracial Congregations in the United States.

By: Emerson, Michael OContributor(s): Emerson, Michael O. OMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (276 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781400837700Subject(s): Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Case studies | Religious institutions -- United States -- Case studies | United States -- Race relations -- Case studiesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: People of the Dream : Multiracial Congregations in the United StatesDDC classification: 277.3/083/089 LOC classification: BL2525 -- .E44 2008ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PRELUDE: Decision -- CHAPTER ONE: Dreams -- CHAPTER TWO: Distinctive -- CHAPTER THREE: Paths -- CHAPTER FOUR: Folk -- CHAPTER FIVE: Attractions -- CHAPTER SIX: Shadows -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Momentum -- APPENDIX A: Shifting Visions: A Brief History of Metaphors for U.S. Race and Ethnic Relations -- APPENDIX B: Statistical Tables -- APPENDIX C: Methodology -- APPENDIX D: Instruments -- Bibliography -- 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.
Summary: It is sometimes said that the most segregated time of the week in the United States is Sunday morning. Even as workplaces and public institutions such as the military have become racially integrated, racial separation in Christian religious congregations is the norm. And yet some congregations remain stubbornly, racially mixed. People of the Dream is the most complete study of this phenomenon ever undertaken. Author Michael Emerson explores such questions as: how do racially mixed congregations come together? How are they sustained? Who attends them, how did they get there, and what are their experiences? Engagingly written, the book enters the worlds of these congregations through national surveys and in-depth studies of those attending racially mixed churches. Data for the book was collected over seven years by the author and his research team. It includes more than 2,500 telephone interviews, hundreds of written surveys, and extensive visits to mixed-race congregations throughout the United States. People of the Dream argues that multiracial congregations are bridge organizations that gather and facilitate cross-racial friendships, disproportionately housing people who have substantially more racially diverse social networks than do other Americans. The book concludes that multiracial congregations and the people in them may be harbingers of racial change to come in the United States.
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Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PRELUDE: Decision -- CHAPTER ONE: Dreams -- CHAPTER TWO: Distinctive -- CHAPTER THREE: Paths -- CHAPTER FOUR: Folk -- CHAPTER FIVE: Attractions -- CHAPTER SIX: Shadows -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Momentum -- APPENDIX A: Shifting Visions: A Brief History of Metaphors for U.S. Race and Ethnic Relations -- APPENDIX B: Statistical Tables -- APPENDIX C: Methodology -- APPENDIX D: Instruments -- Bibliography -- 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.

It is sometimes said that the most segregated time of the week in the United States is Sunday morning. Even as workplaces and public institutions such as the military have become racially integrated, racial separation in Christian religious congregations is the norm. And yet some congregations remain stubbornly, racially mixed. People of the Dream is the most complete study of this phenomenon ever undertaken. Author Michael Emerson explores such questions as: how do racially mixed congregations come together? How are they sustained? Who attends them, how did they get there, and what are their experiences? Engagingly written, the book enters the worlds of these congregations through national surveys and in-depth studies of those attending racially mixed churches. Data for the book was collected over seven years by the author and his research team. It includes more than 2,500 telephone interviews, hundreds of written surveys, and extensive visits to mixed-race congregations throughout the United States. People of the Dream argues that multiracial congregations are bridge organizations that gather and facilitate cross-racial friendships, disproportionately housing people who have substantially more racially diverse social networks than do other Americans. The book concludes that multiracial congregations and the people in them may be harbingers of racial change to come in the United States.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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