Ending Racial Profiling in the Church: Revisiting the Homogenous Unit Principle
The “homogeneous unit principle” (HUP) has informed evangelical mission praxis in the United States for decades. While many see this as a pragmatic approach to spreading the gospel more expediently, others argue that it mirrors processes of racialization in the society at large, while reinforcing hy...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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Mission studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 35, Issue: 3, Pages: 342-365 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Evangelical movement
/ Blacks
/ Racism
/ Mission (international law
/ Inclusion (Sociology)
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| RelBib Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KBQ North America KDG Free church RJ Mission; missiology |
| Further subjects: | B
mission praxis
racialization
multiethnic church
mission ethics
reconciliation
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| Summary: | The “homogeneous unit principle” (HUP) has informed evangelical mission praxis in the United States for decades. While many see this as a pragmatic approach to spreading the gospel more expediently, others argue that it mirrors processes of racialization in the society at large, while reinforcing hyper-segregation in the church. In this paper, I suggest that the American evangelical church needs to re-examine, and ultimately, shed the exclusionary mission practices informed by the HUP if it is to faithfully embody the unity and reconciliation achieved through Christ’s work on the cross in its racialized mission context (Eph 2:11–22). |
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| ISSN: | 1573-3831 |
| Contains: | In: Mission studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341589 |