The Multicultural Leader: Developing a Catholic Personality, Second Edition - Softcover

Sheffield, Dan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1926798708 ISBN 13: 9781926798707

Publisher: Daniel R Sheffield, 2015

Synopsis

This book is intended as a resource for provoking dialogue on the nature of leadership in
multicultural congregations. When the first edition was written, more than a decade ago, there
was a limited pool of resources available to help practitioners in the field, even less addressing
the Canadian context. Dan Sheffield brought a missiologist’s perspective to this discussion
that had been shaped by lived experience in North America’s multi-ethnic reality and churchplanting
experience in post-apartheid, urban South Africa.

Over the past decade, however, a proliferation of resources on multi-ethnic, intercultural,
multi-racial, multicultural churches have entered the marketplace. Again, almost all written
through the lens of the American experience, and often, focused on the mechanics of
multicultural community, rather than the challenges specific to the leadership task. With
another 15 years under his belt, of working with leaders in multi-ethnic congregations across
Canada, USA, Mumbai, Manila, Accra, Bangkok and Budapest, Sheffield brings further
reflection on the development of intercultural leadership skills.

This second edition of The Multicultural Leader deals with the role of congregational
leadership in embedding the multicultural vision as a way of “seeing.” The author draws
from various disciplines to develop a profi le of leaders necessary to initiate and sustain the
multicultural congregation. Sheffield’s conclusion is that leaders in multi-ethnic congregations
must move through a developmental process from an ethnocentric, monocultural perspective
to a multi-ethnic, intercultural approach in order to serve as enablers of multicultural
congregations.

About this title

About the Author

Dan Sheffield is Director of Global and Intercultural Ministries for The Free Methodist Church in Canada and an Adjunct Lecturer at Tyndale Seminary (Toronto, ON) and Northern Seminary (Lombard, IL).

Edition details

• Publisher: Daniel R Sheffield
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1926798708
• ISBN 13: 9781926798707
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 160