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The Urban Church Imagined: Religion, Race, and Authenticity in the City by Jessica M. Barron Details

Explores the role of ethnic and consumer culture in attracting urban worshipers to an evangelical church. The Urban Church Imagine lighting the dynamics of the roads surrounding white urban evangelical…

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Explores the role of ethnic and consumer culture in attracting urban worshipers to an evangelical church. The Urban Church Imagine lighting the dynamics of the roads surrounding white urban evangelical associations for organizational vitality and membership diversification. Many evangelical churches move to urban areas and the city center to build their communities and attract younger members and elves.

Urban environment boosts two forecasts. First, deep knowledge and reverence for popular consumer culture; secondly, the existence of ethnic diversity.

Church leaders use these ideas when they imagine how the "church of the city" should look, but they have to balance it with what it takes to do it. In part, racial diversity is seen as a key to urban churches that present themselves as "connected" and "authentic".

However, in an attempt to seduce religious consumers, church leaders often end up reproducing racial and economic inequality, an unexpected contradiction to the goal of inclusiveness. Drawing on several years of research, Jessica M.

Barron and Rhys H. Williams explore the cultural landmarks of one of these churches in downtown Chicago.

It shows that the understanding of church leaders and thinkers of the relationship between race, consumer culture and the city is a catalyst for many members who value interracial interactions as part of their worship experience. But these polls often exclude members unintentionally on racial and class bases.

Indeed, the efforts of religious organizations to engage urban environments and promote integrated communities produce complex and dynamic relations between their ethnically diverse constituencies and the cultivation of a safe haven in which white middle-class leaders can feel as if they are a positive force in the struggle for religious vitality and racial diversity. The book adds to the growing collection of studies on urban religious organizations, as well as scholarships arising from the intersection and characteristics of congregations in American religious life. In doing so, it presents important insights into the diverse ethnic communities in urban areas, a growing trend among evangelical churches.

This work is an important case study on the challenges facing modern churches and urban institutions in general.



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