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Adam Jones, born on January 15, 1965, is a talented musician with a rich experience and remarkable achievements in the music industry. Known for his unique musical style and skills, he has brought many classic works to the rock music scene. more

“There are three things, and it depends on the group that we're talking about, but there's history, there's culture, and then there's social networks. So, you know, historically black and white, they worship together until about the end of slavery, and people started moving out into separate churches. But it was because of discrimination and racism and such that blacks began to establish their own denominations and their own churches.”

“In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."”

Ifs Said Choices Masters Worship Slave They Said Worship You

Author:Michael Emerson

“Now they had to sit in separate places and sometimes they'd even have to sit outside and look through the windows. But they did worship together.”

Looks Sometimes Together Worship Window

Author:Michael Emerson

“So we didn't get the denominations and the separate congregations really till about into Civil War time. What's happened then, of course, is now that we've had well over 100 years of this history to establish separate cultures, different ways of worshipping, and different ways of understanding theology so that when people try to come together makes it very difficult. And then, of course, social networks, you know, how do we find a place to worship?”

“We go where our family goes. We go where our friends are, and because our social networks are so segregated by race, we end up with what we have. We also find that, you know, if you're immigrants, you're not part of that history.”

Ifs Knows Ends Social Race Our Family Immigrants Social Network

Author:Michael Emerson

“So it may be a language that separates you - again, social networks. But second-generation Asian and Hispanics, second, and third and fourth and so on, they are much more likely to be in integrated churches than are blacks or whites.”

May Language Social Church Generations Thirds Fourth Asian Integrated You Again Social Network

Author:Michael Emerson

“But what we found in the study is that churches are ten times less diverse than the neighborhoods they sit in. So there's something more going on than just reflecting the neighborhood, yeah.”

Found Church Study Ten Yeah Neighborhood Diverse Reflecting

Author:Michael Emerson

“If we go into white congregations, non-whites will sometimes say it felt like worship never started. It was sort of dead and didn't feel that warmly received. But so - and there are different realities either way, and it makes it difficult for all groups to try and cross boundaries.”

Ifs Way Feels Trying Different Sometimes Reality Felt Difficult White Groups Worship Crosses Boundaries Congregation Different Realities

Author:Michael Emerson

“Preaching styles and people being slain in the spirit and things like that. Now it doesn't happen in all black churches, and it happens sometimes in white churches, right? But on average they're quite a bit different.”

People Different Sometimes Happens Spirit Bits Black Church White Style Average Preaching All Black Black Church

Author:Michael Emerson

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