Open friendship in a closed society : Mission Mississippi and a theology of friendship / Peter Slade.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slade, Peter, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church work with minorities--Mississippi.

Church work with minorities.

Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Race relations.

Mississippi--Race relations.

Mississippi.

Mission Mississippi (Organization).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mission Mississippi is the largest interracial ecumenical church-based racial reconciliation group in the United States. Peter Slade offers a sustained examination of whether the Mission's model of racial reconciliation (which stresses one-on-one, individual friendships among religious people of different races) can effectively address the issue of social justice. Slade argues that Mission Mississippi's goal of ""changing Mississippi one relationship at a time"" is both a pragmatic strategy and a theological statement of hope for social and economic change in Mississippi. Carefully tracing the

Contents:

Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Open and Closed; Jürgen Moltmann and Open Friendship; James Wesley Silver and the Closed Society; 3. Mission Mississippi; From Rallies to Meaningful Relationships; Mission Mississippi's Theologies of Racial Reconciliation; 4. Open Friendship and Justice; Justice, Jackson, and the Gospel of Reconciliation; Lee Paris and First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi; Slavery, Segregation, and the Spirituality of the Church; The Spirituality of the Closed Church; Conclusions; 5. Reconciliation 101: Opening Friendship; 6. A Practice of Open Friendship

Prayer BreakfastsA Lived Theology of Prayer and Reconciliation; 7. Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-970693-X

1-282-32880-8

9786612328800

OCLC:

519548016