‘Race’, Black Majority Churches, and the Rise of Ecumenical Multiculturalism in the 1970s
- 3 July 2019
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Twentieth Century British History
- Vol. 30 (4), 531-556
- https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwz016
Abstract
At the beginning of the 1970s, relations between the historic British churches and the new black-led churches were usually non-existent or marked by prejudices or ambivalences. This article examines the emergence, development, and significance of a cross-cultural ecumenical dialogue sponsored by the British Council of Churches. It places this in a context of both growing white liberal interest in the ‘multi-racial’ society and the increasing public assertiveness of collective black Christian consciousness. In doing so, it contributes to our understandings of religious change in the twentieth century: both in terms of perceptions of ‘secularization’ and the complex relationship between Christianity and race relations in the decades after Windrush.Keywords
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