TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shelton,Jason E.
AU  - Emerson,Michael O.
TI  - Blacks and Whites in Christian America: how racial discrimination shapes religious convictions 
T2  - Religion and social transformation
SN  - 9780814722770
AV  - BR563 .B533 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Religion
KW  - Race discrimination
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - United States
KW  - Black theology
KW  - Protestant churches
KW  - Doctrines
KW  - Faith
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Why do African Americans pray so often? --; So rooted a past: slavery and African American Protestant religious tradition --; The Apostles' creed: racial similarities in commitments to core Christian tenets --; Learning and burning: racial differences in "academic" versus "experiential" models of Christianity --; Religious convictions: everyday faith-based actions and beliefs --; Shaded morality: not so Black and White --; Far-reaching faith: evidence of an inclusive religious doctrine --; Reconciling the race problem: identity politics and the gulf between Black and White Protestants; 2; b
N2  - In this engaging and accessible sociological study of white and black Christian beliefs, Jasom E. Shelton and Michael O. Emerson explore why those differences exist. Drawing on the most comprehensive and systematic empirical analysis of African American religious actions and beliefs to date, they delineate five building blocks of black Protestant faith which have emerged from the particular dynamics of American race relations. Shelton and Emerson find that America's history of racial oppression has had a deep and fundamental effect on the religious beliefs and practices of blacks and whites across America
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