Racial Diversity in U.S. Congregations, 1998–2019

Dougherty, Kevin D.; Chaves, Mark; Emerson, Michael O.

doi:10.1111/jssr.12681

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“…Multiracial churches are congregations where no one racial group makes up more than 80% of the congregation (Emerson and Kim 2003; Emerson and Woo 2006). As of 2013, only 5% of Protestant congregations met the qualifications of this definition of multiracial (Edwards, Christerson, and Emerson 2013); however, new data says nearly 25% of Evangelical congregations are multiracial (Dougherty, Chaves, and Emerson 2020).…”

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Intersectional Stratification: Race, Religion, and Status Attainment

Evans

Park

2022

Critical Research on Religion

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Research repeatedly shows that stratification occurs through racial classification and systemic racism. Scholars have also shown that stratification in wealth, education, and occupational attainment for Americans varies by religious affiliation. In this article, we incorporate theories of intersectionality and complex religion to study the ways that religion stratifies status attainment within racial groups in the United States. We hypothesize that relational proximity to predominantly white denominations increases status attainment for racial minorities in the United States. Using data from the 2000-2016 waves of the General Social Survey, we find that Black Evangelicals have higher levels of occupational prestige than Black non-Evangelicals. We argue that this is because of networks of social capital via multiracial churches that allow Black Evangelicals access to increasing levels of occupational prestige.

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Intersectional Stratification: Race, Religion, and Status Attainment

Evans

Park

2022

Critical Research on Religion

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“…This stands in contrast to studies of Islamophobia and antisemitism, which often relate the construction of and prejudices against Jews and Muslims to racialization processes (see Meer, 2013). There has also been an increase in studies of racial attitudes and practices among white, conservative Protestants and racial diversity in Christian congregations (Emerson and Smith, 2000; see Dougherty et al, 2020). A critique against these studies is that they provide individualistic and religious cultural forms of explanation, and they fail to recognize how religious racial attitudes intersect with racism, structural inequalities, gender, and the growth of the political right in the post-civil rights era.…”

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Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory

Collins

Silva

Ergün

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Contemp Polit Theory

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Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory (Duke University Press, 2019, henceforth IACST) investigates how knowledge has been essential for resisting political domination. Whether visible or not, resistance to unjust power relations of race, class, and gender always exists, whether through faint memory or televised social protest. But what role does knowledge play in such resistance? Throughout my intellectual work, I return to this core question by examining how individuals and groups who are oppressed within systems of power create and pass on knowledge that fosters their survival, resilience, and resistance. Ó 2021 The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited. 1470-8914 Contemporary Political Theory www.palgrave.com/journalsMy intellectual journey to intersectionality informs this current book. In Black Feminist Thought, I analyzed how African-American women resisted the dehumanization of chattel slavery by producing a self-defined oppositional knowledge. Black women could see, feel, and experience how the treatment of their bodies as simultaneously raced and gendered shaped the contours of their subordination. This initial insight that both race and gender intersected reflected a methodology of bottom-up theorizing to address social problems. The terms race and gender signify the intersection of racism and sexism, with other terms added over time to flesh out contemporary understandings of intersectionality.My focus on Black women's knowledge is one case among many. The complexities of the multiple resistant knowledge projects that inform intersectionality lie in the parallel and intertwining narratives of Indigenous peoples, refugee and immigrant groups, women, LGBTQ teenagers, religious and ethnic minorities, and poor people. These and other similarly subordinated groups also find themselves facing social problems that can neither be understood, nor solved in isolation. In Race, Class, and Gender, Margaret Andersen and I drew upon these narratives to map the emergence of intersectionality as a field of inquiry. For over two decades, we selected articles that examined how race, class, and gender increasingly informed one another, thereby collecting empirical evidence for intersectionality (Andersen and Collins, 2020). We saw the field grow from its initial emphasis on race, class, and gender to encompass sexuality, nation, ethnicity, ability, age, religion, and similar categories of analysis. We also witnessed the increasing globalization of intersectionality as a field of critical inquiry and praxis. This painstaking work laid a foundation for the synthetic narrative of intersectionality's ideas, scope, and practices that Sirma Bilge and I present in Intersectionality (Collins and Bilge, 2016, 2nd edn 2020).My intellectual journey in many ways parallels the emergence of the field. I came to intersectionality knowing that, while disciplinary specializations offer useful analyses of power relations, their conceptual blind spots can limit their theoretical insight. Privileged groups with...

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“…Cultural and ethnoracial differences in institutional functioning and in peoples' expectations of religious institutions may be amplified by the fact that religious institutions often are highly segregated, at least in the U.S. The overwhelming majority (80%) of Americans attend religious services in racially segregated settings (Dougherty et al, 2020). This level of segregation supports the reinforcement of religious/spiritual beliefs, values, and practices over time.…”

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Cultural Considerations in Positive Psychology and the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

Mattis

2022

Handbook of Positive Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality

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Research in positive psychology and the psychology of religion and spirituality has been largely acultural, acontextual, and apolitical. However, social scientists interested in positive human development have long recognized that culture plays a central and indelible role in shaping human behavior. In this chapter, I highlight clarifying definitions of culture. I explore the link between culture, religiosity, spirituality, and positive psychological development. I argue that extant approaches to the study of culture, religiosity/spirituality, and positive development are limited in that they do not sufficiently account for structural and sociopolitical contributors to these relationships. I also posit that existing models do not typically account for the power dynamics that shape positive psychological and prosocial outcomes. Drawing on the Socioecological, Transactional model of Religiosity and Spirituality (SET-RS Urban; Mattis et al., 2019), I propose a new conceptual frame that addresses these gaps. This new framework, the integrative model of Culture, Religiosity, and Spirituality in Positive Development (CRSPD), can guide future research on the relations between culture, religiosity, spirituality, and prosocial development.

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Racial Diversity in U.S. Congregations, 1998–2019

Cited by 27 publications

References 29 publications

Intersectional Stratification: Race, Religion, and Status Attainment

Intersectional Stratification: Race, Religion, and Status Attainment

Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory

Cultural Considerations in Positive Psychology and the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

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