{"product_id":"blacks-and-whites-in-christian-america-9780814722787","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\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\u003cbr\u003eConventional wisdom holds that Christians, as members of a\u003cbr\u003e“universal” religion, all believe more or less the same things\u003cbr\u003ewhen it comes to their faith. Yet black and white Christians\u003cbr\u003ediffer in significant ways, from their frequency of praying or\u003cbr\u003eattending services to whether they regularly read the Bible or\u003cbr\u003ebelieve in Heaven or Hell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this engaging and accessible sociological study of white\u003cbr\u003eand black Christian beliefs, Jason E. Shelton and Michael O.\u003cbr\u003eEmerson push beyond establishing that there are racial differences\u003cbr\u003ein belief and practice among members of American\u003cbr\u003eProtestantism to explore why those differences exist. Drawing\u003cbr\u003eon the most comprehensive and systematic empirical\u003cbr\u003eanalysis of African American religious actions and beliefs\u003cbr\u003eto date, they delineate five building blocks of black Protestant\u003cbr\u003efaith which have emerged from the particular dynamics\u003cbr\u003eof American race relations. Shelton and Emerson find that\u003cbr\u003eAmerica’s history of racial oppression has had a deep and\u003cbr\u003efundamental effect on the religious beliefs and practices of\u003cbr\u003eblacks and whites across America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jason E. Shelton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48089377800443,"sku":"9780814722787","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_a33a058c-82db-4775-8c8c-44bf33ddb0da.jpg?v=1770443179","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/blacks-and-whites-in-christian-america-9780814722787","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}