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Relational Refugees: Alienation and Reincorporation in African American Churches and Communities

Relational Refugees: Alienation and Reincorporation in African American Churches and Communities

Wimberly, Edward P.

Paperback

General Christianity

Publisher Price: $26.99

ISBN10: 0687087988
ISBN13: 9780687087983
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: Apr 1 2000
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Children imitate behaviors and learn values from the adults who care for them. In the absence of relationships or healthy, clearly transmitted values, children flounder. They are, one could say, relational refugees. Those in ministerial leadership positions likewise need someone to imitate or learn from, a type of mentor. This mimesis or copying of behavior, ideas, attitudes, lives, examples, and ministries of significant others has a long legacy in the African-American community. Such mimesis entails trying on different dimensions of ministry until one finds one's unique approach to it. In the African-American context the core of mimesis is liberation. Most models of liberation have ignored or trivialized the significance of caring and supportive relationships to the liberation process. Yet ministry occurs in contexts where, increasingly, cross-generational, extended family, and church relationships are lacking.

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