Churches, Blackness, and Contested Multiculturalism [electronic resource] : Europe, Africa, and North America /
Smith, R.editor.
Ackah, W.editor.
Reddie, A.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
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
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-280) and index.
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.
Religion and sociology.
Sociology.
Ethnicity.
Religions.
African Americans.
Sociology of Religion.
Gender Studies.
Ethnicity Studies.
Social Aspects of Religion.
Comparative Religion.
African American Culture.