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Open Friendship in a Closed Society

By Slade

Open Friendship in a Closed Society

By Slade

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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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
276
Release Date:
2009-10-09
Publication Date:
2012-04-17
Publisher:
ACADEMIC
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
019537262X
ISBN13:
9780195372625
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
581 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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