TY  - BOOK
AU  - Christerson,Brad
AU  - Edwards,Korie Little
AU  - Emerson,Michael Oluf
TI  - Against All Odds: The Struggle for Racial Integration in Religious Organizations 
SN  - 9780814722237
AV  - BR517 .C46 2005
U1  - 277.3/083/089 22
PY  - 2005///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Religious institutions
KW  - United States
KW  - RELIGION / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Religious institutions are among the most segregated organizations in American society. This segregation has long been a troubling issue among scholars and religious leaders alike. Despite attempts to address this racial divide, integrated churches are very difficult to maintain over time. Why is this so? How can organizations incorporate separate racial, ethnic, and cultural groups? Should they? And what are the costs and rewards for people and groups in such organizations? Following up on Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith's award-winning Divided by Faith, Against All Odds breaks new ground by exploring the beliefs, practices, and structures which allow integrated religious organizations to survive and thrive despite their difficulties. Based on six in-depth ethnographies of churches and other Christian organizations, this engaging work draws on numerous interviews, so that readers can hear first-hand the joys and frustrations which arise from actually experiencing racial integration. The book gives an inside, visceral sense of what it is like to be part of a multiracial religious organization as well as a theoretical understanding of these experiences
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814790267
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ER  -