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Intersectionality in Intentional Communities - The Struggle for Inclusivity in Multicultural U.S. Protestant Congregations (Paperback)
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Over a decade of qualitative research, Assata Zerai has observed
both incremental moves toward inclusiveness and strategies employed
to accomplish long-term changes while conducting case studies of
five multicultural Protestant churches in sites across the United
States. With an interpretive approach, she explores these centers
of worship and theorizes the conditions under which progressive
social change occurs in some U.S. Protestant congregations.
Understanding the daily practices of change and entrenchment in
Protestant congregations and the intentional work to replace
dominating structures with liberating ones may provide keys to
creating multicultural, antiracist, feminist, and sexually
inclusive volitional communities more broadly. Intersectionality in
Intentional Communities argues that making a significant advance
toward inclusion requires change in the underlying social
structures of racism, sexism, heteronormativity, class, and other
marginalizing influences. In order to isolate this phenomenon,
Zerai conducted fieldwork and archival research among an African
American and four multiracial U.S. churches. Different from a
university or other public institution in which members are legally
required to support diversity and related values, Zerai believes
that volitional communities may provide a best-case scenario for
how, motivated by higher ideals, members may find ways to create
inclusive communities. Zerai's research has a broad empirical base,
encompassing five sites: a largely African American urban
megachurch in the Midwest; a large Midwestern
multiracial/multicultural church; a large urban
multiracial/multicultural church in the eastern United States; a
small, suburban Midwestern multiracial church; and an inclusive
Midwestern college town church. In this book, Zerai further
explores important connections between U.S. Protestant Christian
congregations and political activism.
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