Intersectionality in intentional communities : the struggle for inclusivity in multicultural U.S. Protestant congregations / by Assata Zerai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zerai, Assata, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church and minorities--United States--Case studies.

Church and minorities.

Multiculturalism--Religious aspects--Christianity--Case studies.

Multiculturalism.

Protestant churches--United States--Case studies.

Protestant churches.

Multiculturalism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

United States.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xi, 173 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]

Summary:

In over a decade of qualitative research, Assata Zerai has observed both incremental moves toward inclusiveness and strategies employed to accomplish long-term changes while conducting case studies of five multicultural Protestant churches in sites across the United States. Different from a university or other public institution in which members are legally required to support diversity and related values, Zerai believes that volitional communities may provide a best-case scenario for how, motivated by higher ideals, members may find ways to create inclusive communities. With an interpretive approach, she explores these centers of worship and theorizes the conditions under which progressive social change occurs in some U.S. Protestant congregations. Understanding the daily practices of change and entrenchment in Protestant congregations and the intentional work to replace dominating structures with liberating ones may provide keys to creating multicultural, antiracist, feminist, and LGBTIQ-inclusive volitional communities more broadly. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Intersectionality: A Feminist Interpretive Methodology 11

Part I Developing a Theory of Intersectionality in Inclusive Churches 19

2 Afrocentricism, Color-Blind Ideology, and Intersectionality : Three Models of Internal Christian Congregational Cohesion 21

3 Christian Evangelical Internal Discussions of the 2008 Presidential Election 39

4 An Africana Feminist Critique of American Christian Antiwar (Dis)engagements 47

Part II Becoming Inclusive in a Presbyterian Church : 1940 to 1980 69

5 A Presbyterian Campus Church: 1940 to 1953 71

6 McKinley, UPCUSA, and Civil Rights: 1953 to 1967 99

7 Growing Pains of a Social Justice Ministry: 1968 to 1973 113

8 The Dawning of More Light Presbyterianism at McKinley 123.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Zerai, Assata, 1964- author. Intersectionality in intentional communities.

ISBN:

9781498526418

1498526411

OCLC:

940957795