What sort of difficulties would happen when people of different cultures try to come together to worship? Tiny little things such as… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
What happens is sometimes these congregations will still have the white style of worship, even though they're mixed, because folks are willing… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Now they had to sit in separate places and sometimes they'd even have to sit outside and look through the windows. But… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I may have to shop with them. But on Sunday I don't want to have to worship with them. I want to… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
If we go into white congregations, non-whites will sometimes say it felt like worship never started. It was sort of dead and… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
So there was great clashes when, you know, if you believe you shouldn't remove your shoes and someone's taking their shoes off,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Absolutely, although every congregation will say, you know, every worship leader will say it's vital. It's very important, but again these are,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Call-and-response style, yes, exactly. So whenever different groups get together then there has to be this long period of negotiation. How will… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
It's one of the things we find in these congregations is that they are much more likely to be sort of up-beat… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
So they actually put it into their mission statement, and they start changing things as a result. They may change how worship… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
So we didn't get the denominations and the separate congregations really till about into Civil War time. What's happened then, of course,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
And then they would have the shoe removers on one side, and the non-shoe removers on the other side until they could… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
There are three things, and it depends on the group that we're talking about, but there's history, there's culture, and then there's… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
You find the most in not any particular denomination specifically. It's the style of worship. So if we have what we call… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
There's a lot of life there, but it's a different sort, because there's a lot less immigrants and a lot more racial,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
If you move here from somewhere else, I often think if I move to Germany, for example, or if I move China… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
So these are the kind of things that now when people are trying to move towards multiracial congregations that they're stressing. They're… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
It may be changing, but still it's the one place, that total control of an institution, that African Americans have. So sometimes, you know,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Call-and-response style, yes, exactly. So whenever different groups get together then there has to be this long period of negotiation. How will we worship?… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic. — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
So you find a lot of these sixth Americans congregate in these interracial congregations. They hang out together at work, at school, wherever. — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never terrified once… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
We do not have an American culture. We have a white American culture and a black American culture. So when those two groups try… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
But what we found in the study is that churches are ten times less diverse than the neighborhoods they sit in. So there's something… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
And different traditions stress different - so then there's that. I talked to an African American who says before she goes into an interracial… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I think it's easier, I really do, because of not having that similar history, so that's why I think two-thirds of these mixed congregations… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
There are three things, and it depends on the group that we're talking about, but there's history, there's culture, and then there's social networks.… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I ask the clergy why don't I see myself represented in leadership? And I'm told, and this happens quite a bit, "We don't think… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
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