Download or read book Inverting the Norm: Racially-Mixed Congregations in a Segregationist State written by Galjoen Press and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-12-17 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inverting the Norm describes how a few Christian congregations in apartheid South Africa achieved racial integration despite the state's legal enforcement of segregation. The book analyzes how this paradoxical racial integration, alongside state segregation, relates to historical shifts in global and national norms.