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 competing inclusive and exclusive tendencies.

Keywords

Multiculturalism
Churches
Political activism
Youth resistance
Africa
United States
Canada
Europe
Diversity
Blackness
Christianity
culture
gender
identity
women

About the authors

Gayle Baldwin, University of North Dakota, USA Wessel Bentley, University of South Africa Annalisa Butticci, Harvard Divinity School, USA, and Utrecht University, Netherlands Gordon E. Dames, University of South Africa Dennis C. Dickerson, Vanderbilt University, USA Carol B. Duncan, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada Olufemi A Fatunmbi, Pacific Southwest Mennonite Conference and Mennonite Church, USA Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot, National Centre for Scientific Research, France Sonia Hinds, St. Columba and All Hallows Anglican Church, and University of Toronto, Canada Michael Brandon McCormack, Vanderbilt University Divinity School, USA David Muir, Faith in Britain, London, UK Ekwutosi Essien Offiong, University of Calabar, Nigeria Israel Oluwole Olofinjana, Catford Community Church, UK Benjamin Simon, Church of Baden, Germany

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Churches, Blackness, and Contested Multiculturalism
Book Subtitle: Europe, Africa, and North America
Editors: R. Drew Smith, William Ackah, Anthony G. Reddie
Series Title: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137386380
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: R. Drew Smith, William Ackah, and Anthony G. Reddie 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-41165-5Published: 18 June 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-48934-3Published: 18 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-38638-0Published: 18 June 2014
Series ISSN: 2945-6975
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6983
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 294
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Religion, Gender Studies, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Comparative Religion, African American Culture

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Foundational Dimensions of Nascent Twentieth-Century Multiculturalisms

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Expanding Contemporary Diversities and Entrenched Majority Cultures

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Resistant Blackness, Persistent Poverty, and Hesitant Multiculturalisms

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About this book

Keywords

About the authors

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