Churches, Blackness, and Contested Multiculturalism: Europe, Africa, and North America

by R. Drew Smith (Editor)

Introduction; R. Drew Smith and William Ackah PART FOUNDATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF NASCENT 20TH CENTURY MULTICULTURALISMS 1. Anti-Black Problematics in Imperial and Contemporary British Christianity; Anthony G. Reddie 2. Multiculturalisms and Black Christianities in Canada; Carol B. Duncan 3. The Changing Roles of Women in the A Case Study of Women in Calabar, Nigeria, 1900-2000; Ekwutosi Essien Offiong 4. William Stuart Nelson and the Interfaith Origins of the Civil Rights Movement; Dennis C. Dickerson PART EXPANDING CONTEMPORARY DIVERSITIES AND ENTRENCHED MAJORITY CULTURES 5. The Significance of Multicultural Churches in A Case Study of Crofton Park Baptist; Israel Oluwole Olofinjana 6. Churches, Multiculturalism, and Justice in An Anglican Perspective; Sonia Hinds 7. The Changing Demographics of Global the Case of West African Immigrants Within the Pacific Southwest Conference in the Mennonite Church, USA; Olufemi A Fatunmbi 8. Balancing Christianity, Culture, and African Pentecostals in Italy; Annalisa Butticci 9. Identity and Ecumenical Partnership of Churches of African Origin in Germany; Benjamin Simon 10. Clergy as The Role of the Presbytery in Facilitating Culturally Diverse Faith Communities in South Africa; Wessel Bentley 11. The Language of 'Diversity' in Reconstructing Whiteness in the Dutch Reformed Church; Cobus van Wyngaard 12. A Multicultural Theology of Difference; Gordon Dames PART RESISTANT BLACKNESS, PERSISTENT POVERTY, AND HESITANT MULTICULTURALISMS 13. London's Riots, Gangs, and Moral Formation of Young People; R. David Muir 14. Life-giving Assets at a Johannesburg Informal Black Faith and the False Gods of Multiculturalism in the 21st Century; Vuyani S. Vellum 15. Inspired Hymns as a Belief System in the Kimbanguist A Revelation of the Meanings of Blackness; Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot 16. Whose Black Church? Voices of Oppression and Resistance in Response to the Murder of a Lesbian Teenager; Gayle R. Baldwin 17. The Preachers and the Powers that Black Activist Clergy and the Quest for Social Justice in the Era of Hip Hop; Michael Brandon McCormack

308 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014