Ambivalent miracles : evangelicals and the politics of racial healing /

"Over the past three decades, American evangelical Christians have undergone unexpected, progressive shifts in the area of race relations, culminating in a national movement that advocates racial integration and equality in evangelical communities. The movement, which seeks to build cross-racia...

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Main Author: Wadsworth, Nancy D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014
Series:Politics of race and ethnicity.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One: What Stories We Tell: Historicizing Evangelicalism and Race
  • 1. The New Paradigm of Racial Change
  • 2. Evangelical Race Relations in Historical Context
  • 3. Competing Racial Narratives in the Post-Civil Rights Movement Period
  • Part Two: A New Wave: The Turn to Reconciliation
  • 4. Religious Race Bridging as a Third Way
  • 5. Epiphanal Spaces of Evangelical Culture
  • Part Three: Bridging the Future: Culture, Politics, and Today's Multiethnic Churches
  • 6. Troubled Waters under the Bridge: Avoiding Conflict through Customs and Etiquettes
  • 7. Politics, Culture, and the Multiethnic Church
  • 8. On the Ground, In the Moment: Growing a Young Multiethnic Church
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.