It is sometimes said that the most segregated time of the week
in the United States is Sunday morning. Even as workplaces and
public institutions such as the military have become racially
integrated, racial separation in Christian religious congregations
is the norm. And yet some congregations remain stubbornly, racially
mixed. "People of the Dream" is the most complete study of this
phenomenon ever undertaken. Author Michael Emerson explores such
questions as: how do racially mixed congregations come together?
How are they sustained? Who attends them, how did they get there,
and what are their experiences? Engagingly written, the book enters
the worlds of these congregations through national surveys and
in-depth studies of those attending racially mixed churches. Data
for the book was collected over seven years by the author and his
research team. It includes more than 2,500 telephone interviews,
hundreds of written surveys, and extensive visits to mixed-race
congregations throughout the United States.
"People of the Dream" argues that multiracial congregations are
bridge organizations that gather and facilitate cross-racial
friendships, disproportionately housing people who have
substantially more racially diverse social networks than do other
Americans. The book concludes that multiracial congregations and
the people in them may be harbingers of racial change to come in
the United States.
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