Black Protestant Views of Science

Tinsley, Cleve; Prickett, Pamela J.; Ecklund, Elaine Howard

doi:10.1017/s1742058x18000309

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“…From what I know about racial minorities in the United States from reading other studies, including those from Ecklund and her colleagues (Tinsley et al. ), I would hypothesize that my generalization does fit. For example, I do not think that African Americans have any more of a system of religious knowledge than do white people, and as Ecklund and her colleagues describe, if anything African Americans have more reason to be in moral conflict with science.…”

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confidence: 91%

THE SCOPE AND IMPLICATIONS OF MORALS NOT KNOWLEDGE

Evans¹

2019

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I greatly appreciate the opportunity provided by the editor of Zygon to further develop the ideas in my book Morals Not Knowledge: Recasting the Contemporary U.S. Conflict between Religion and Science in conversation with four critical commentaries. It is an honor to have one's work focused upon so intently, and I greatly appreciate the time and effort of the critics. The book was quite intentionally written as a provocation, an attempt at agenda setting, and as a call for changing the thinking of the entire religion and science academic community. In my previous writings I have kept close to the data, allowing myself at best mid‐level conclusions, but this book is a foray into the abstraction and inevitable lack of precision required for high‐level generalization. I hope that it continues to be generative of debate.

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Section: Are My Claims Generalizable?mentioning

confidence: 91%

THE SCOPE AND IMPLICATIONS OF MORALS NOT KNOWLEDGE

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2019

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“…This respondent's words also reveal what we have called the potential of the black church to hold a “moral community of memory about science and medicine” (Tinsley et al. ).…”

Section: Voices Of Minority Christiansmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Indeed, Evans’s primary focus on white Americans fails to acknowledge how views of science and moral authority are shaped by race, class, and gender (Wilde and Glassman ; Bolger and Ecklund ; Tinsley et al. ).…”

Section: Voices Of Minority Christiansmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Research also suggests that black Americans see scientists as biased (Tinsley et al. ), a concern that often extends to science educators (Bolger and Ecklund ). This should not be surprising; Noy and O'Brien (, 40) argue that “the collective memory of gendered experiences with racism vis‐à‐vis science and religion contribute to group‐specific views of these two sources of knowledge and authority.” Evans leaves discussions of these types of “moral conflicts” largely untouched, making them a fruitful area for future research.…”

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A Way Forward for Sociological Research on Science and Religion: A Review and a Riff

Ecklund¹,

Mehta²,

Bolger³

2019

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John Evans's new book Morals Not Knowledge pushes scholars to rethink contemporary debates about religion and science by moving past the rhetoric of societal elites to examine the perspectives of everyday Americans, identifying the moral conflicts at the heart of debates. We review Evans's key contributions while also extending and challenging his arguments, urging consideration of how renewed moral debates might be informed by a broader set of U.S. "publics." Drawing on empirical research, we highlight four sets of voices that are missing from Evans's analysis. Specifically, we highlight the voices of racial and ethnic minorities, religious communities (as opposed to individuals), members of minority religious traditions, and everyday religious scientists. Through doing so we offer avenues for future research on these diverse publics that will help facilitate a broader set of better and more informed debates about moral conflict between religious and scientific communities.

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“…Their perceptions were shaped-at least in partby the representation of medical professionals in the congregation itself. Past research has highlighted similar differences across SES groups among Black Protestants, particularly in their views of the potential bias of scientists (Tinsley et al 2018).…”

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Where Would You Go? Race, Religion, and the Limits of Pastor Mental Health Care in Black and Latino Congregations

Bolger

Prickett

2021

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A growing body of literature explores how religious congregations shape attitudes toward mental health in racial/ethnic minority communities. Such research has primarily focused on the views of Black clergy and congregants, limiting our ability to understand how the views of Black Christians might differ from Christians in other racial/ethnic minority communities. We drew on focus groups with 14 pastors and interviews with 20 congregants from Black and Latino churches in Houston, Texas, to examine how church members make decisions about where to seek mental health care or direct others for help. We found that both Black and Latino Christians prefer seeking spiritual resources, like their pastor, when dealing with mental health issues, even though pastors feel limited in their ability to help congregants. The preferences of members of each racial/ethnic group, however, were driven by different logics. While Black Christians in this study sought spiritual resources based on perceived norms within the broader Black community, Latino Christians relied on pastoral care due to norms in their individual congregation. The results shed light on how religious beliefs, race/ethnicity, and social class intersect to shape attitudes toward mental health care in ways that have implications for potential partnerships between churches and mental health care providers.

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Black Protestant Views of Science

Cited by 7 publications

References 22 publications

THE SCOPE AND IMPLICATIONS OF MORALS NOT KNOWLEDGE

THE SCOPE AND IMPLICATIONS OF MORALS NOT KNOWLEDGE

A Way Forward for Sociological Research on Science and Religion: A Review and a Riff

Where Would You Go? Race, Religion, and the Limits of Pastor Mental Health Care in Black and Latino Congregations

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