The Most Segregated Institution: Correlates of Interracial Church Participation
The Church has been called the most segregated institution in American Society. It is apparent, however, that many whites and blacks do attend church together and that churches as pervasive, totally voluntary organizations can offer a unique social setting where interracial contact can occur. In thi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1984
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Review of religious research
Year: 1984, Volume: 25, Issue: 3, Pages: 204-219 |
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| Summary: | The Church has been called the most segregated institution in American Society. It is apparent, however, that many whites and blacks do attend church together and that churches as pervasive, totally voluntary organizations can offer a unique social setting where interracial contact can occur. In this paper a number of social correlates were found to be associated with interracial church worship, and the most important appeared to be residence related. Residence in urban areas, in the west or northeast, having moved away from the state in which one was reared, and living near members of the opposite race were all associated with interracial worship for both whites and blacks. Discriminant analysis was used to measure the predictive power of our independent variables among whites and a contextual approach was employed to look at whites who seemingly "go out of their way" to worship with blacks. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3511119 |