Open Friendship in a Closed Society

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-537262-5
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 581 g

Mission Mississippi is the largest interracial ecumenical church-based racial reconstruction 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 organization's strategies of biracial church partnerships and sponsorships of large civic events, and intercessory prayer breakfast groups, he concludes that they do indeed offer hope for not only for racial reconciliation but for enabling the mobilization of white economic and social power to benefit broad-based community development. At the same time, he honestly conveys the considerable obstacles to the success of these strategies. Slade's work comes out of the vibrant Lived Theology movement, which looks at the ways theologies go beyond philosophical writings to an embodiment in the grassroots lives of religious people. Drawing on extensive interviews and observations of Mission Mississippi activities, church sources, and theological texts, this book is important not only for scholars not only of theology and race relations but Southern studies and religious studies as well.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Slade, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Dialog & Beziehungen zwischen Religionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Ökumenik, Konfessionskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Introduction

- 2: Open and Closed

- 3: Mission Mississippi

- 4: Open Friendship and Justice

- 5: Reconciliation 101: Opening Friendship

- 6: Prayer Breakfasts as a Practice of Open Friendship

- 7: Conclusion

- Notes

- Selected Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Slade is Assistant Professor of Religion at Ashland University