Talking About Cultural Diversity in Your Church
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Talking About Cultural Diversity in Your Church

Gifts and Challenges

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eBook - ePub

Talking About Cultural Diversity in Your Church

Gifts and Challenges

About this book

In the Great Commission, Jesus told his followers to 'go and make disciples of all nations'. But today, you don't need to be a missionary in another country to come across different cultures. In your neighborhood, school, workplace, and shopping area you probably run across many people with backgrounds vastly different from your own. To have an effective ministry in the U.S. today, outside or inside the church, Christians need to be aware of how people's culture affects the ways they think and live. Talking about Cultural Diversity in Your Church gives classes, workshops, or small groups the opportunity to discuss issues of multiculturalism. Presenting what culture means in the first part of the book shows how understanding and misunderstandings of culture affect American society. This beginning section encourages readers to be aware of their own cultural assumptions and how these assumptions color relations with others. It then highlights special skills for communicating between cultures and highlights the special challenges for religion in a pluralistic society. But the heart of the book is eleven case studies with discussion questions. These concrete cases allow participants to see about how their understandings of culture have real world implications. And the discussion questions let participants talk in meaningful ways about these difficult issues. If you want a useful discussion about multiculturalism in your congregation, you should take a look at Talking about Cultural Diversity in Your Church. Visit the author's web page

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: The Challenge of Cultural Diversity
  7. 1 Background Issues
  8. 2 Culture in Social Science Perspective
  9. 3 Reflections on Cultural Diversity
  10. 4 The United States as a Pluralistic Society
  11. 5 Special Challenges for Religion in a Pluralistic Society
  12. 6 Skills for Effective Intercultural Communication
  13. 7 A Case Study in Communication across Ethnic Borders
  14. 8 A Case Study in Religious Pluralism
  15. 9 A Case Study in Social Class and Social Responsibility
  16. 10 A Case Study in Gender Rights
  17. 11 A Case Study in Sexual Orientation
  18. 12 A Case Study in Aging
  19. 13 A Case Study in Disability and Community
  20. 14 A Case Study in Racial Attitudes
  21. 15 A Case Study in Language as Social Capital
  22. 16 A Case Study in Family Organization
  23. 17 A Case Study in Interfaith Cooperation
  24. Conclusions
  25. Notes
  26. References
  27. About the Author