Blacks and Whites in Christian America : how racial discrimination shapes religious convictions / Jason E. Shelton and Michael O. Emerson.
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TextSeries: Religion and social transformationPublication details: New York : New York University Press, �2012.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 279 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 0814722776
- 9780814722770
- 9780814722787
- 0814722784
- African Americans -- Religion
- Race discrimination -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Race discrimination -- United States
- Black theology
- Protestant churches -- United States -- Doctrines
- Faith
- RELIGION -- Christianity -- Protestant
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General
- African Americans -- Religion
- Black theology
- Faith
- Protestant churches -- Doctrines
- Race discrimination
- Race discrimination -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- United States
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- BR563.N4 S49 2012eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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