Divided by Faith, 9780197802618
Hardcover
White evangelicals’ faith deepens America’s racial divide, despite good intentions.
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Divided by Faith

evangelical religion and the problem of race in america, second edition

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  • Hardcover

    328 pages

  • Release Date

    10 April 2026

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Summary

Divided by Faith: Unmasking Racial Bias in White Evangelical America

First published in 2000, Divided by Faith has become a landmark book for understanding race and religion in the United States. Drawing on a nationwide telephone survey of two thousand people and an additional two hundred face-to-face interviews, it probes the grassroots of white evangelical America.

A quarter of a century on from the first edition, Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith find that d…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780197802618
ISBN-10:0197802613
Author:Michael O. Emerson, Christian Smith
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:Oxford University Press Inc
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:328
Edition:2nd
Release Date:10 April 2026
Weight:0g
Dimensions:210mm x 140mm
About The Author

Michael O. Emerson

Michael O. Emerson is the Harry and Hazel Chavanne Fellow and Director of the Religion and Public Policy Program at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. He is the author of The Religion of Whteness: How Racism Distorts Christian Faith, among many other publications, and the winner of several research and teaching awards. He has featured in numerous media outlets, including CBS Evening News, National Public Radio, TheWall Street Journal, CNN, The New York Times, USA Today, podcasts, and SiriusXM radio.

Christian Smith is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. He is well known for his research focused on religion, adolescents and emerging adults, and social theory. For his work on evangelicalism, he developed the subcultural identity theory of religious persistence and strength.

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