People of the Dream : Multiracial Congregations in the United States.

It is sometimes said that the most segregated time of the week in the United States is Sunday morning. Even as workplaces and public institutions such as the military have become racially integrated, racial separation in Christian religious congregations is the norm. And yet some congregations remai...

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Main Author: Emerson, Michael O.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010.
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Summary:It is sometimes said that the most segregated time of the week in the United States is Sunday morning. Even as workplaces and public institutions such as the military have become racially integrated, racial separation in Christian religious congregations is the norm. And yet some congregations remain stubbornly, racially mixed. People of the Dream is the most complete study of this phenomenon ever undertaken. Author Michael Emerson explores such questions as: how do racially mixed congregations come together? How are they sustained? Who attends them, how did they get there, and what are their.
Physical Description:1 online resource (276 pages)
ISBN:9781400837700
1400837707
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.