Final Case Study
For this case study, I have examined race and racism that have ramifications for religious environment. More specifically, the objective is to highlight the importance of building more racial diverse churches by comparing it the data with racial dominated churches. My data includes 8 testimonies, church’s websites, and lectures by the faculty sponsor. First, I gathered 8 testimonies from, Be the Bridge Facebook group, and I analyzed their experiences with racial diverse and racial dominated churches. The testimonies and comments have demonstrated the benefits of racial diverse churches: comfort, welcoming, peace, etc. In addition, I have researched and collected data from church’s websites of percentage distributions of the congregation by race and ethnicity. The data includes the person, type of church, church’s frequency of addressing racism to congregation, and comments and quotes from congregation. There will also be a second set of data with the same factors that reflects my personal experience with racial diverse and racial dominated churches. Lastly, throughout my paper will consist of important details from lectures I have learned in this course and readings I took notes from. As a result, my case study will focus strictly to prove that churches should be racially diverse.
SOC 410, Global Issues: Race in America
Melisa Ortiz Berry
Bushnell History Symposium, P103
10 AM – 1 PM