Divided by Faith : Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America, Second Edition

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 despite efforts by the movement's leaders to address the problem of racial discrimination, evangelicals themselves are still preserving America's racial chasm.In fact, most white evangelicals see no systematic discrimination against Black Americans or other racial groups.The authors contend that it is not overt racism that prevents evangelicals from recognizing ongoing problems in American society.Instead, it is the evangelical movement's emphasis on individualism, free will, and personal relationships that makes invisible the pervasive injustice that perpetuates racial inequality. This second ed