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Churches, Blackness, and Contested Multiculturalism : Europe, Africa, and North America /

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 competin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Smith, R. Drew, Ackah, William, Reddie, Anthony G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Colección:Black religion, womanist thought, social justice.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • R. Drew Smith and William Ackah PART I: FOUNDATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF NASCENT 20TH CENTURY MULTICULTURALISMS 1. Anti-Black Problematics in Imperial and Contemporary British Christianity
  • Anthony G. Reddie 2. Multiculturalisms and Black Christianities in Canada
  • Carol B. Duncan 3. The Changing Roles of Women in the Church: A Case Study of Women in Calabar, Nigeria, 1900-2000
  • Ekwutosi Essien Offiong 4. William Stuart Nelson and the Interfaith Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
  • Dennis C. Dickerson PART II: EXPANDING CONTEMPORARY DIVERSITIES AND ENTRENCHED MAJORITY CULTURES 5. The Significance of Multicultural Churches in Britain: A Case Study of Crofton Park Baptist
  • Israel Oluwole Olofinjana 6. Churches, Multiculturalism, and Justice in Canada: An Anglican Perspective
  • Sonia Hinds 7. The Changing Demographics of Global Christianity: the Case of West African Immigrants Within the Pacific Southwest Conference in the Mennonite Church, USA
  • Olufemi A Fatunmbi 8. Balancing Christianity, Culture, and Race: African Pentecostals in Italy
  • Annalisa Butticci 9. Identity and Ecumenical Partnership of Churches of African Origin in Germany
  • Benjamin Simon 10. Clergy as Bridgebuilders: The Role of the Presbytery in Facilitating Culturally Diverse Faith Communities in South Africa
  • Wessel Bentley 11. The Language of 'Diversity' in Reconstructing Whiteness in the Dutch Reformed Church
  • Cobus van Wyngaard 12. A Multicultural Theology of Difference
  • Gordon Dames PART III: RESISTANT BLACKNESS, PERSISTENT POVERTY, AND HESITANT MULTICULTURALISMS 13. London's Burning: Riots, Gangs, and Moral Formation of Young People
  • R. David Muir 14. Life-giving Assets at a Johannesburg Informal Settlement: Black Faith and the False Gods of Multiculturalism in the 21st Century
  • Vuyani S. Vellum 15. Inspired Hymns as a Belief System in the Kimbanguist Church: A Revelation of the Meanings of Blackness
  • Aurelien Mokoko Gampiot 16. Whose Black Church? Voices of Oppression and Resistance in Response to the Murder of a Lesbian Teenager
  • Gayle R. Baldwin 17. The Preachers and the Powers that BET: Black Activist Clergy and the Quest for Social Justice in the Era of Hip Hop
  • Michael Brandon McCormack.