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Michael O. Emerson
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“Dominant people and groups used power to:
• declare what styles of music will and will not be used
• determine what historical religious leaders looked like racially
• decide which teachings to emphasize, and which to downplay
• determine what religious education literature to use
• decide which pictures or other art goes on the walls
• declare who the spiritual heroes are and why
• decide which aspects of history to remember and how to interpret the past
• decide who is mature in their faith, and who is not
• determine how much race and ethnicity will be talked about
• declare that race is not important and will not be discussed
• declare that the race of those in leadership does not matter
• look at and treat the non-majority groups with paternalism
• force others to assimilate or leave the congregation
• determine the culture through which the faith will be interpreted
• determine the culture through which faith will be practiced
• make others feel powerless
• remain ignorant about other cultures
• determine if change will happen and the pace of change (almost always, slowly)
• make people feel small, unimportant, like outsiders
• deny having power”
― People of the Dream: Multiracial Congregations in the United States
• declare what styles of music will and will not be used
• determine what historical religious leaders looked like racially
• decide which teachings to emphasize, and which to downplay
• determine what religious education literature to use
• decide which pictures or other art goes on the walls
• declare who the spiritual heroes are and why
• decide which aspects of history to remember and how to interpret the past
• decide who is mature in their faith, and who is not
• determine how much race and ethnicity will be talked about
• declare that race is not important and will not be discussed
• declare that the race of those in leadership does not matter
• look at and treat the non-majority groups with paternalism
• force others to assimilate or leave the congregation
• determine the culture through which the faith will be interpreted
• determine the culture through which faith will be practiced
• make others feel powerless
• remain ignorant about other cultures
• determine if change will happen and the pace of change (almost always, slowly)
• make people feel small, unimportant, like outsiders
• deny having power”
― People of the Dream: Multiracial Congregations in the United States
“One consequence of thoroughgoing evangelical individualism is a tendency to be ahistorical, to not grasp fully how history has an influence on the present.”
― Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
― Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
“Tears and hugs and saying I’m sorry is a good first step, but for me, the question is not one of changing the hearts of individuals as [much as] it is dealing with the systems and the structures that are devastating African-American people.”43”
― Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
― Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
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