Download e-book for iPad: Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of by Christian Smith,Michael O. Emerson

By Christian Smith,Michael O. Emerson

ISBN-10: 0195131401

ISBN-13: 9780195131406

ISBN-10: 0195147073

ISBN-13: 9780195147070

ISBN-10: 1541468317

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via a national cell survey of 2,000 humans and an extra 2 hundred face-to-face interviews, Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith probed the grassroots of white evangelical the United States. they discovered that regardless of contemporary efforts by way of the movement's leaders to deal with the matter of racial discrimination, evangelicals themselves appear to be retaining America's racial chasm. in truth, such a lot white evangelicals see no systematic discrimination opposed to blacks. however the authors contend that it isn't energetic racism that stops evangelicals from spotting ongoing difficulties in American society. as a substitute, it's the evangelical movement's emphasis on individualism, loose will, and private relationships that makes invisible the pervasive injustice that perpetuates racial inequality. so much racial difficulties, the topics instructed the authors, could be solved by way of the repentance and conversion of the sinful members at fault.
Combining a considerable physique of facts with refined research and interpretation, the authors throw sharp mild at the oldest American hindrance. after all, they finish that regardless of the easiest intentions of evangelical leaders and a few optimistic developments, actual racial reconciliation is still a long way over the horizon.

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