{"product_id":"blacks-and-whites-in-christian-america","title":"Blacks and Whites in Christian America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2012 Winner of the C. Calvin Smith Award presented by the Southern Conference on African American Studies, Inc.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2014 Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Book Award presented by the American Sociological Association's Sociology of Religion Section\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\nConventional wisdom holds that Christians, as members of a\u003cbr\u003e\n“universal” religion, all believe more or less the same things\u003cbr\u003e\nwhen it comes to their faith. Yet black and white Christians\u003cbr\u003e\ndiffer in significant ways, from their frequency of praying or\u003cbr\u003e\nattending services to whether they regularly read the Bible or\u003cbr\u003e\nbelieve in Heaven or Hell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIn this engaging and accessible sociological study of white\u003cbr\u003e\nand black Christian beliefs, Jason E. Shelton and Michael O.\u003cbr\u003e\nEmerson push beyond establishing that there are racial differences\u003cbr\u003e\nin belief and practice among members of American\u003cbr\u003e\nProtestantism to explore why those differences exist. Drawing\u003cbr\u003e\non the most comprehensive and systematic empirical\u003cbr\u003e\nanalysis of African American religious actions and beliefs\u003cbr\u003e\nto date, they delineate five building blocks of black Protestant\u003cbr\u003e\nfaith which have emerged from the particular dynamics\u003cbr\u003e\nof American race relations. Shelton and Emerson find that\u003cbr\u003e\nAmerica’s history of racial oppression has had a deep and\u003cbr\u003e\nfundamental effect on the religious beliefs and practices of\u003cbr\u003e\nblacks and whites across America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Jason E. Shelton, Michael Oluf Emerson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615479685500,"sku":"9780814722756","price":74.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780814722756_69906a26-680b-4be9-9067-9967ec62b861.jpg?v=1726663918","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/blacks-and-whites-in-christian-america","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}