A collective case study of multicultural small-group discipleship in selected Southern Baptist churches was conducted to determine distinctive characteristics and beneficial practices that could be useful in other Southern Baptist churches. The study participants represent a str…
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From an institutionalist perspective, post-settlement peace-building in cases of conflict defined in terms of ethnonationalism requires a transformation in cultural identity politics from ethnonationalist institutions that perpetuate ethnic cleavages to civic ones that promote e…
This is a study about the meanings of silence in multi-ethnic classrooms of older adults, as well as a study of signs and signals for breaking silence which are used by participants in classroom contexts when they wish to speak. A search of the literature revealed minimal inform…
This dissertation, based on thirteen months of dissertation fieldwork in Moscow, Russia (from October 1995 to November 1996), addresses religious ritual as the means through which people express and create their ethnicities in the post-Soviet context. I focus on the ritual life …
This dissertation combines two broad topics—the expansion of primary education and the development of national identities—in a case study of late Imperial Russia. It concentrates on the expansion of educational opportunities for non-Russian ethnic groups living in St. Petersburg…
This research analyzes the construction, negotiation and maintenance of social ‘space’ amongst rural women belonging to the Sri Lankan Muslim, Sinhalese and Estate Tamil ethnic communities in Yahalathenna-west, by using a combination of ethnographic research techniques, together…
Non-profit organizations have played an increasingly important role in organizing racial and ethnic minority groups in the United States during the past three decades. Recent literature has indicated that non-profit organizations may face tensions in choosing between service del…
This work deals with the role of Islam as it relates to the social, political and economic structures and processes, and the particular problems of national unity and political stability which Nigeria has yet to achieve. Nigeria, the "Giant" of Africa, has been blessed with both…
Multiracial/ethnic individuals have become the fastest growing demographic in North America. Subsequently, these student populations are entering higher education in increased numbers. The identity formation and social-cultural self-acceptance in multiracial/ethnic students is c…
This dissertation contrasts the emergence of Jewish newspaper cultures in the Russian and Ottoman empires in the last decades of the nineteenth and first decade of the twentieth century. To do so, it explores the first daily newspapers to be published in Yiddish and Judeo-Spanis…
In this study, I ask two questions: What are the consequences of globalization for an ethnically diverse society? What is the role of the state in balancing these consequences of globalization with the domestic demands to manage ethnic diversity? In addressing these questions, m…
Based on over two years of field research, this is an ethnographic analysis of the social production of space in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, a culturally diverse urban milieu of originally immigrant communities. Taking a temporal, political-economic approach, it examines how …
Multiethnic churches could be places of healing and profound witness to the reconciliation found in Christ. Unfortunately, our habitus, that interior framework that shapes the way we conceive of the world, is not currently sufficient to allow for the flourishing of multiethnic c…
An Analysis of effectiveness of The Multicultural Church Initiative (MCI) at Grace Chapel as she moved from Color Blind attendance to Color Brave multiculturalism. Done by interviewing twenty-two key informants who reflected upon the seven major initiatives of: leadership vision…