Crossing the Ethnic Divide: The Multiethnic Church on a Mission - Couverture rigide

Garces-Foley, Kathleen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195311086 ISBN 13 : 9780195311082

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2007

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195311086
• ISBN 13: 9780195311082
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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