Product Description: 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 things when it comes to their faith...read more

Product Description: This book considers how interdisciplinary conversation, critique, and collaboration enrich and transform humanities and social science education for those teaching and studying traditional Americanist fields.

Product Description: For undergraduate/graduate courses in the Sociology of Religion in departments of Sociology; and for courses such as Religious Perspectives on Social Issues in departments of Theology.   A reader that seeks to explore the relationship between the structure and culture of religion and various elements of social life in the U...read more

Product Description: In the last four decades, desegregation has revolutionized almost every aspect of life in the United States: schools, businesses, government offices, even entertainment. But there is one area that remains largely untouched, and that is the church...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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