People, Papers, Presentations

Michael Emerson, the Allyn and Gladys Cline Professor of Sociology, was honored last week at Indiana Wesleyan University for the 10th anniversary of his book “Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America,” which he co-authored with Christian Smith. The campus’s John Wesley Honors College hosted a conference, “Divided by Faith: A Decade Retrospective,” for scholars whose research agendas intersect with religion and race in American society and church practitioners interested in the challenges and promise of racial and ethnic diversity in their congregations. Emerson participated in a panel discussion and offered a plenary address for the conference.

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