The following is a bibliography created by Dr. Peter Cha for a course at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School on "Developing Multi-ethnic Ministries". He has graciously allowed us to post this treasure of excellent resources on our website…

A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Church, Culture and Society

Clapp, Rodney.  1996.  A Peculiar People: The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society.           Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
Guder, Darrell L. 2000.  The Continuing Conversion of the Church.  Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. Eerdmans.
Mott, Stephen.  1982.  Biblical Ethics and Social Change.  Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.
Sider, Ronald, Philip Olson and Heidi Unruh.  2002.  Churches That Makes a Difference:
            Reaching Your Community with Good News and Good Works.  Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.
Smith, Christian.  1998.  American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving.  Chicago: The
            University of Chicago Press.
Stassen, Glen and David Gushee.  2003.  Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context. 
            Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
Unruh, Heidi and Ronald Sider.  2005.  Saving Souls, Serving Society.  New York: Oxford
            University Press.
Wood, Ralph.  2003.  Contending for the Faith: The Church’s Engagement with Culture.  Waco, TX:
            Baylor University Press.

Urbanization and Urban Experiences/Ministries in the United States

Anderson, Elijah.  1999.  Code of the Street.  New York:  W. W. Norton & Company.
Campolo, Tony.  2000.  Revolution and Renewal: How Churches Are Saving Our Cities. 
            Louisville, KY:Westminster/John Knox Press.
Conn, Harvey and Manuel Ortiz.  2001.  Urban Ministry: The Kingdom, the City, and the People
            of God.  Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
Florida, Richard.  2005.  Cities and the Creative Class.  New York: Routledge.
Kozol, Jonathan.  2005.  Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in
            America.  New York: Crown Publishing Group.
Wilson, William Julius.  1996.  When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor.
            New York: Vintage.
Wilson, William Julius and Richard Taub.  2006.  There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic,
            and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America. 
            New York: Knopf.

Race Relations in the United States and the Ministry of Racial Unity

Cornell, Stephen and Douglas Hartmann.  1998.  Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a
Changing World.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.
Emerson, Michael  et. al,.  2003.  United By Faith.  New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Fields, Bruce.  2001.  Introducing Black Theology: Three Critical Questions for the Evangelical
            Church.  Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.
Gilbreath, Edward.  2006.  Reconciliation Blues: A Black Evangelical’s Inside View of White Christianity.
            Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
Matsuoka, Fumitaka.  1995.  Out of Silence: Emerging Themes in Asian American Churches. 
            Cleveland, OH: United Church Press.
McNeil Brenda Salter and Rick Richardson.  2004.  The Heart of Racial Justice: How Soul Change
            Leads to Social Change.  Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
Omi, Michael and Howard Winant.  1994.  Racial Formation in the United States: From the
            1960s to the 1990s.  New York: Routledge.
Pattilo-McCoy, Mary.  1999.  Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle
            Class.  Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Sharp, Douglas.  2002.  No Partiality: The Idolatry of Race and the New Humanity.  Downers
            Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
Twiss, Richard.  2000.  One Church Many Tribes.  Ventura, CA: Regal Books.
West, Cornel.  1993.  Race Matters.  Boston: Beacon Press.

Postmodernity and the Emerging Cultures

Berger, Arthur, ed.  1998.  The Postmodern Presence: Readings of Postmodernism in American
            Culture and Society.  Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
Erickson, Millard J.  2001.  Truth or Consequences: the Promise and Perils of Postmodernism. 
            Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
Flory, Richard W. and Donald Miller.  2000.  Gen-X Religion.  New York, NY: Routledge.
Gergen, Kenneth.  1991.  The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in contemporary Life.  New
            York:Basic Books.
Grenz, Stanley.  1996.  A Primer on Postmodernism.  Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. Eerdmans
            Publishing Co.
Harvey, David.  1989.  The condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural
            Change.  Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
Lyon, David.  2002.  Postmodernity.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
________.  2000.  Jesus in Disneyland: Religion in Postmodern Times.  Cambridge, UK: Polity.
Thiselton, Anthony.  1995.  Interpreting God and the Postmodern Self: On Meaning,Manipulation
            and Promise.  Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Multi-ethnicity/Multiculturalism

Anderson, David.  2004.  Multicultural Ministry.  Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.
________.  2007.  Gracism: The Art of Inclusion.  Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
Blount, Brian and Leonora Tisdale.  2001.  Making Room at the Table: An Invitation to
            Multicultural Worship.  Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press.
Carroll, Jackson W. and Wade Clark Roof.  2002.  Bridging Divided Worlds: Generational
            Cultures in Congregations.  San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Cha, Peter et. al., eds.  Growing Healthy Asian American Churches.  Downers Grove, IL:
            InterVarsity Press.
Christerson, Brad et. al.  2005.  Against All Odds: The Struggle for Racial Integration in
            Religious Organizations.  New York: New York University Press.
Conde-Frazier, Elizabeth, S. Steve Kang and Gary Parrett.  2004.  A Many Colored Kingdom:
            Multicultural Dynamics for Spiritual Formation.  Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House.
Crespo, Orlando.  2003.  Being Latino in Christ: Finding Wholeness in Your Ethnic Identity.
            Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
Elmer, Duane.  2002.  Cross-Cultural Connections: Stepping Out and Fitting In Around the
            World.  Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
________.  2006.  Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility. 
            Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
Emerson, Michael et. al.  2003.  United by Faith: The Multiracial Congregation as an Answer to
            the Problem of Race.  New York: Oxford University Press.
Foster, Charles.  1997.  Embracing Diversity: Leadership in Multicultural Congregations. 
            Washington D. C.: The Alban Institute.
Matsuoka, Fumitaka.  1998.  The Color of Faith: Building Community in a Multicultural Society. 
            Cleveland, OH: United Church Press.
Ortiz, Manuel.  1993.  The Hispanic Challenge.  Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
________.  1996.  One New People.  Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
Perry, Dwight, ed. 2002.  Building Unity in the Church of the New Millenium.  Chicago, IL:
            Moody Press.
Pocock, Michael and Joseph Henriques.  2002.  Cultural Change and Your Church: Helping Your
            Church Thrive in a Diverse Society.  Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.
Takaki, Ronald.  1993.  A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America.  Boston: Little,
Brown and Company.
Taylor, Charles.  1994.  Multiculturalism.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

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