Mission Mississippi is the largest interracial ecumenical churchbased racial reconstruction group in the United States. Peter Slade offers a sustained examination of whether the Missions model of racial reconciliation (which stresses oneonone, individual friendships among religious people of different races) can effectively address the issue of social justice. Slade argues that Mission Mississippis goal of "changing Mississippi one relationship at a time" is both a pragmatic strategy and a theological statement of hope for social and economic change in Mississippi. Carefully tracing the organizations strategies of biracial church partnerships and sponsorships of large civic events, and intercessory prayer breakfast groups, he concludes that they do indeed offer hope for not only for racial reconciliation but for enabling the mobilization of white economic and social power to benefit broadbased community development. At the same time, he honestly conveys the considerable obstacles to the success of these strategies. Slades work comes out of the vibrant Lived Theology movement, which looks at the ways theologies go beyond philosophical writings to an embodiment in the grassroots lives of religious people. Drawing on extensive interviews and observations of Mission Mississippi activities, church sources, and theological texts, this book is important not only for scholars not only of theology and race relations but Southern studies and religious studies as well.

Binding: Hardcover;276 pages; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Classification: HBJK; Weight: 686 g; Dimensions: 241 x 165 x 22

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