Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; PRELUDE: Decision; CHAPTER ONE: Dreams; CHAPTER TWO: Distinctive; CHAPTER THREE: Paths; CHAPTER FOUR: Folk; CHAPTER FIVE: Attractions; CHAPTER SIX: Shadows; CHAPTER SEVEN: Momentum; APPENDIX A: Shifting Visions: A Brief History of Metaphors for U.S. Race and Ethnic Relations; APPENDIX B: Statistical Tables; APPENDIX C: Methodology; APPENDIX D: Instruments; Bibliography; Index
Summary
It is sometimes said that the most segregated time of the week in the UnitedStates 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
