Crossing the Ethnic Divide

The Multiethnic Church on a Mission

Kathleen Garces-Foley (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2007
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-531108-2 (ISBN)

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It is commonly accepted that the way to build church growth is to target specific ethnic or racial groups. People prefer to worship with their own, the theory goes, and if growth is what you want you have to accept that fact. In this book Kathleen Garces-Foley challenges the accepted wisdom and puts forth an alternative hypothesis about the role of a multi-cultural ideology in integrating a range of ethnic and generational groups. Through the story of one Asian-American-led multiethnic congregation in Southern California, Evergreen Baptist Church, she seeks to understand how the multiethnic church works as a new and unique social institution.

Kathleen Garces-Foley is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Marymount University specializing in contemporary American religious life. In addition to research on the growth of multiethnic churches, she studies immigrant religious communities and American death practices and is the editor of Death and Religion in a Changing World.

Reihe/Serie	AAR Academy Series
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	241 x 165 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-19-531108-6 / 0195311086
ISBN-13	978-0-19-531108-2 / 9780195311082
Zustand	Neuware