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People of the Dream : Multiracial Congregations in the United States / Michael O. Emerson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2006Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (288 p.) : 8 halftones. 2 line illus. 8 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691136271
  • 9781400837700
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 277.3/083/089
LOC classification:
  • BL2525
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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 -- Appendix B. Statistical Tables -- Appendix C. Methodology -- Appendix D. Instruments -- Bibliography -- Index
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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Frontmatter -- 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 -- Appendix B. Statistical Tables -- Appendix C. Methodology -- Appendix D. Instruments -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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