Shades of White Flight: Evangelical Congregations and Urban Departure

by Mark T. Mulder

Book Overview

Since World War II, historians have analyzed a phenomenon of "white flight" plaguing the urban areas of the northern United States. One of the most interesting cases of "white flight" occurred in the Chicago neighborhoods of Englewood and Roseland, where seven entire church congregations from one denomination, the Christian Reformed Church, left the city in the 1960s and 1970s and relocated their churches to nearby suburbs. In Shades of White Flight,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813564824
• ISBN13: 9780813564821
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary