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Becoming an Anti-Racist Church : Journeying toward Wholeness /

Christians addressing racism in American society must begin with a frank assessment of how race figures in the churches themselves, leading activist Joseph Barndt argues. This practical and important volume extends the insights of Barndt's earlier, more general work to address the race situatio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barndt, Joseph R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Setting the biblical context : reclaiming an anti-racist gospel
  • A tale of two churches
  • Racism in United States church history
  • Resisting racism in United States church history
  • Racism and resisting racism in the post-civil rights church
  • Race, prejudice, and power in the church
  • Captive Christians in a captive church
  • Institutionalized racism in the church
  • Cultural racism and the multicultural church
  • God's call to become an anti-racist church
  • Getting it done: the organizing task
  • Institutionalizing anti-racism in the church.