Worship Across the Racial Divide
Religious Music and the Multiracial Congregation
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 1 February 2018
- ISBN 9780190859947
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages282 pages
- Size 231x152x17 mm
- Weight 399 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Many scholars and church leaders believe that music and worship style are essential in stimulating diversity in congregations. Gerardo Marti draws on interviews with more than 170 congregational leaders and parishioners, as well as his experiences participating in worship services in a wide variety of Protestant, multiracial Southern Californian churches, to present this insightful study of the role of music in creating and sustaining congregational diversity.
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Many scholars and church leaders believe that music and worship style are essential in stimulating diversity in congregations. Gerardo Marti draws on interviews with more than 170 congregational leaders and parishioners, as well as his experiences participating in worship services in a wide variety of Protestant, multiracial Southern Californian churches, to present this insightful study of the role of music in creating congregational diversity.
Worship across the Racial Divide offers a surprising conclusion: that there is no single style of worship or music that determines the likelihood of achieving a multiracial church. Far more important are the complex of practices of the worshipping community in the production and absorption of music. Multiracial churches successfully diversify by stimulating unobtrusive means of interracial and interethnic relations; in fact, preparation for music apart from worship gatherings proves to be just as important as its performance during services. Marti shows that aside from and even in spite of the varying beliefs of attendees and church leaders, diversity happens because music and worship create practical spaces where cross-racial bonds are formed.
This groundbreaking book sheds light on how race affects worship in multiracial churches. It will allow a new understanding of the dynamics of such churches, and provide crucial aid to church leaders for avoiding the pitfalls that inadvertently widen the racial divide.
The strength of this study lies in Marti's willingness to challenge his own preconceptions about how music assists the creation and maintenance of multiracial congregations by listening closely to the testimony offered by his informants, and by drawing on an array of theoretical provocations... In the end, Marti discovers, what is vital about the music promulgated by successful multiracial congregations isn't the sound per se or the degree to which it signposts ethnic particularities, but the practices it engendersrehearsals, Sunday performances, after-hours meeting and mealsand the meaningful human relationships it ultimately creates.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Dream of Diversity and the Dilemma of Music
Part I Confronting Popular Notions at the Intersection of Race and Worship
Chapter 2 Popular Beliefs about Worship in Multiracial Churches
Chapter 3 African Americans as the Icon of ?True Worship?
Part II Worship Experience and Music Selection in Multiracial Churches
Chapter 4 The Na?ve Experience of Worship in Multiracial Churches
Chapter 5 The Challenge of Leading Multiracial Worship
Part III Negotiating Race and Achieving Congregational Diversity
Chapter 6 Variety and Intentionality in the Design of Multiracial Worship
Chapter 7 ?Have You Seen Our Gospel Choir?? Conspicuous Color in Multiracial Worship
Chapter 8 Interracial Community through Multiracial Worship Practices
Conclusion Mystical Worship and the Reality of Practice
Appendix: Research Methodology
Notes
Bibliography
Index
