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9781566991810

Embracing Diversity Leadership in Multicultural Congregations

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  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1997-12-31
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

Explore a variety of approaches congregations have taken to embrace differences; identify leadership issues diversity creates in congregations; and discover programmatic suggestions drawn from the experience of multicultural congregations to address these issues. This book helps readers to understand their own experience with racial and cultural differences and is a guide for gathering diverse people into the life and mission of the congregation.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
Purpose ix
Background x
Overview xvi
Embracing Differences
1(20)
``Are There Any Other Congregations Like This One?''
2(5)
Catalysts to Practices That Embrace
7(6)
Facing Resistance
13(8)
Negotiating Differences
21(28)
Congregations: What Are They?
21(2)
Becoming Church
23(13)
Dynamics of Power in Negotiating Difference
36(13)
Congregational Ties
49(25)
A Linking Practice
49(5)
Welcoming Strangers
54(7)
Gathering Strangers into Community
61(4)
A Company of Strangers
65(7)
An Activity to Implement Insights from this Chapter
72(2)
Congregational Conversation
74(26)
Conversation as a Practice
74(8)
Empowering Speech
82(1)
Legitimating Speech
83(9)
Accepting Ambiguity
92(4)
An Activity to Implement Insights from this Chapter
96(4)
Congregational Events
100(16)
The Ordering of Congregational Practices
100(6)
Characteristics of Event-Centered Congregations
106(10)
Leadership in Multicultural Congregations
116(13)
Transformative Leadership
117(2)
Anticipatory Leadership
119(1)
Relational Leadership
120(3)
Leadership and Power
123(6)
Notes 129

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