Open Friendship in a Closed Society

by Peter Slade

Mission Mississippi is the largest interracial ecumenical church-based racial reconciliation group in the United States. Peter Slade offers a sustained examination of whether the Mission's model of racial reconciliation (which stresses one-on-one, individual friendships among religious people of different races) can effectively address the issue of social justice. Slade argues that Mission Mississippi's goal of "changing Mississippi one relationship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019537262X
• ISBN13: 9780195372625
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Academic
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"