The Elusive Dream: The Power of Race in Interracial Churches
In the midst of prodigious efforts to create multiracial churches, Korie Edwards's The Elusive Dream arrives as a cautionary tale. Edwards argues that “interracial” churches, that is churches consisting primarily of whites and blacks, are only viable if they are comfortable places for whites. S...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2010
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2010, Volume: 71, Issue: 2, Pages: 250-251 |
| Review of: | The elusive dream (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2008) (Garces-Foley, Kathleen)
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| Summary: | In the midst of prodigious efforts to create multiracial churches, Korie Edwards's The Elusive Dream arrives as a cautionary tale. Edwards argues that “interracial” churches, that is churches consisting primarily of whites and blacks, are only viable if they are comfortable places for whites. She is certainly not the first to sound the alarm about white hegemony in integrated churches, but The Elusive Dream adds weight to the claim by using data from the 1998 National Congregations Study (NCS) and applying critical race theory to a compelling case study of an interracial church with an African American majority and African American pastor. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srq026 |