@article{1479545,
      recid = {1479545},
      author = {Shelton, Jason E.,  and Emerson, Michael Oluf, },
      title = {Blacks and Whites in Christian America : How Racial  Discrimination Shapes Religious Convictions /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {2012 Winner of the C. Calvin Smith Award presented by the  Southern Conference on African American Studies, Inc. 2014  Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Book Award  presented by the American Sociological Association's  Sociology of Religion Section Conventional wisdom holds  that Christians, as members of a"universal" religion, all  believe more or less the same thingswhen it comes to their  faith. Yet black and white Christiansdiffer in significant  ways, from their frequency of praying orattending services  to whether they regularly read the Bible orbelieve in  Heaven or Hell.In this engaging and accessible sociological  study of whiteand black Christian beliefs, Jason E. Shelton  and Michael O.Emerson push beyond establishing that there  are racial differencesin belief and practice among members  of AmericanProtestantism to explore why those differences  exist. Drawingon the most comprehensive and systematic  empiricalanalysis of African American religious actions and  beliefsto date, they delineate five building blocks of  black Protestantfaith which have emerged from the  particular dynamicsof American race relations. Shelton and  Emerson find thatAmerica's history of racial oppression has  had a deep andfundamental effect on the religious beliefs  and practices ofblacks and whites across America.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479545},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814722770.001.0001},
}