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Session Description
Race and Church 101: 94% of religious congregations are one race or ethnicity. Protestant churches are 95 or 96%, and as a church becomes more conservative the number appears to go up. Homogeneity is the standard, and this is part of why I want to be very cautious about those who say you must be diverse in order to be Biblical. If that is true, then 95% of our churches are not Biblical. Social science uses a marker of 20% of the congregation being different from the majority group. This is based on a social-psychological schema that if you have at least 20%, every person will have regular contact with someone who is of a different race or ethnicity.
Conference Title
2008 Calvin Symposium on Worship
Event Date
1-25-2008
Event Type
Workshop/Seminar
Type (recording/text)
Recording
Topic
Global/Multi-Lingual Worship
Keywords:
multiracial churches, diversity, inclusivity
Recommended Citation
Marti, Gerardo, "How Race Works in Multiracial Churches" (2008). Symposium on Worship Archive. 42.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/uni-cicw-symposium/2008/allitems/42
How Race Works in Multiracial Churches
Race and Church 101: 94% of religious congregations are one race or ethnicity. Protestant churches are 95 or 96%, and as a church becomes more conservative the number appears to go up. Homogeneity is the standard, and this is part of why I want to be very cautious about those who say you must be diverse in order to be Biblical. If that is true, then 95% of our churches are not Biblical. Social science uses a marker of 20% of the congregation being different from the majority group. This is based on a social-psychological schema that if you have at least 20%, every person will have regular contact with someone who is of a different race or ethnicity.