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Churches, Blackness, and Contested MulticulturalismIntroduction

Churches, Blackness, and Contested Multiculturalism: Introduction [Christian voice and identity within multicultural Western contexts and in globalizing African contexts have become complicated by the increasing plurality of voices and identities occupying these landscapes. Christianity’s numerical, cultural, and political predominance within Europe, North America, and the former colonial capitals of Africa has been challenged in recent decades by reconfigured social dynamics and demographics within these contexts. Western and continental African metropolises have been transforming into centers of “super-diversity” (a terminology that Steven Vertovec says points to “a level and kind of complexity surpassing anything… previously experienced”),1 and the new plurality within these contexts has called into question prevailing conceptions of acceptability, normativity, and monovocality. This book assesses contemporary church responses to multicultural diversity and resisted categories of social difference, with a central focus on whether or how racial, ethnic, religious, sexual, and gender differences are validated by churches (and especially black churches) torn between competing inclusive and exclusive tendencies.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Churches, Blackness, and Contested MulticulturalismIntroduction

Part of the Black Religion / Womanist Thought / Social Justice Book Series
Editors: Smith, R. Drew; Ackah, William; Reddie, Anthony G.
Smith, R. Drew; Ackah, William
Churches, Blackness, and Contested Multiculturalism — Nov 5, 2015
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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2014
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978-1-349-48934-3
Pages
1 –8
DOI
10.1057/9781137386380_1
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Abstract

[Christian voice and identity within multicultural Western contexts and in globalizing African contexts have become complicated by the increasing plurality of voices and identities occupying these landscapes. Christianity’s numerical, cultural, and political predominance within Europe, North America, and the former colonial capitals of Africa has been challenged in recent decades by reconfigured social dynamics and demographics within these contexts. Western and continental African metropolises have been transforming into centers of “super-diversity” (a terminology that Steven Vertovec says points to “a level and kind of complexity surpassing anything… previously experienced”),1 and the new plurality within these contexts has called into question prevailing conceptions of acceptability, normativity, and monovocality. This book assesses contemporary church responses to multicultural diversity and resisted categories of social difference, with a central focus on whether or how racial, ethnic, religious, sexual, and gender differences are validated by churches (and especially black churches) torn between competing inclusive and exclusive tendencies.]

Published: Nov 5, 2015

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