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Over the past three decades, American evangelical Christians have
undergone unexpected, progressive shifts in the area of race relations, culminating in a
national movement that advocates racial integration and equality in evangelical communities. The
movement, which seeks to build cross-racial relationships among evangelicals, has meant
challenging well-established paradigms of church growth that built many megachurch empires.
While evangelical racial change (ERC) efforts have never been easy and their reception has been
mixed, they have produced meaningful transformation in religious communities. Although the
movement as a whole encompasses a broad range of political views, many participants are
interested in addressing race-related political issues that impact their members, such as
immigration, law enforcement, and public education policy.

Ambivalent Miracles traces the rise and ongoing evolution of evangelical
racial change efforts within the historical, political, and cultural contexts that have shaped
them. Nancy D. Wadsworth argues that the stunning breakthroughs this movement has achieved, its
curious political ambivalence, and its internal tensions are products of a complex cultural
politics constructed at the intersection of U.S. racial and religious history and the
meaning-making practices of conservative evangelicalism. Employing methods from the emerging
field of political ethnography, Wadsworth draws from a decade’s worth of interviews and
participant observation in ERC settings, textual analysis, and survey research, as well as a
three-year case study, to provide the first exhaustive treatment of ERC efforts in political
science.

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