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ID23212
NAMEM O Emerson
GIVEN NAMESM
FAMILY NAMEO Emerson
SIGNATUREEMERSON M O
AFFILIATIONSRice University
ORCID0000-0002-7900-5888
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS64
TOTAL CITATIONS983
AUTHOR COUNT64
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX15
  • Religion and Black/White Residential Segregation: The Influence of Religious and Regional Context

    Open Access•David Sikkink, M O Emerson et al.•ARTICLE•Journal for the Scientific Study…•2026

    Research on religious tradition and residential segregation focuses on “open” versus “closed” civic orientations, but ignores the structural effects of religious fields as well as other relevant differences, such as Catholic immigrant parishes and the communal role of Black Protestantism in response to racial hostility in large northern cities during the Great Migration. We argue that the dominant religion in a regional religious field reinforces…

  • Religious and Racialized Emotions: How Race, Congregations, and Leadership Shape Racial Pessimism

    Open Access•Victoria Isaac, E Chan et al.•ARTICLE•Journal for the Scientific Study…•2026

    Racialized and religious emotions can challenge or perpetuate the racial structure. Racial pessimism can play a significant role in how people perceive, respond to, and engage with racial inequality. We examine how religion shapes racial pessimism among Christians with a focus on congregational and leadership racial composition. Across racial groups, the perceived importance of faith is inversely associated with racial pessimism. While attending …

  • The Gathering Storm in the Evangelical Field: Education, Christian Nationalism, and Racial Inequality

    Open Access•David Sikkink, M O Emerson et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Religion•2025

    What generates divides within American evangelicalism on racial inequality? Recent political developments, including race-related social activism and the Trump movement, are likely to enhance social and cultural divides within the evangelical field, especially regarding the application of evangelical motifs of personal moral responsibility, sacrificial care for those in need, and engaged orthodoxy. Complex religion demands attention to the intera…

  • Health in Harmony: Integrating Community Strengths to Bridge Disparities

    Open Access•Lauren Anderson, Lauren B Anderson et al.•ARTICLE•Health Equity•2025

    There is a need to shift from deficit-based environmental health approaches toward a more balanced framework that also considers community strengths at a granular level. The Universal Basic Neighborhood Framework integrates both qualitative and quantitative data across 35 health-supportive elements within topics of environmental, housing, social, and transportation domains, promoting an understanding of health as emerging from a range of environm…

  • Is Racial Justice a Gospel Issue? Mapping the Relationship between Race, Christianity, and Justice

    G E Bracey, Tryce Prince et al.•ARTICLE•Political Theology•2025•References: 11

  • White Flight or Flux?

    Brad Christerson, M O Emerson et al.•CHAPTER•Against All Odds•2020

  • The Need for Belonging

    Brad Christerson, M O Emerson et al.•CHAPTER•Against All Odds•2020

  • A Place to Call Home

    Brad Christerson, M O Emerson et al.•CHAPTER•Against All Odds•2020

  • Against All Odds

    Brad Christerson, M O Emerson et al.•CHAPTER•Against All Odds•2020

  • Jesus Is Color-Blind

    Brad Christerson, M O Emerson et al.•CHAPTER•Against All Odds•2020

  • Together and Separate

    Brad Christerson, M O Emerson et al.•CHAPTER•Against All Odds•2020

  • Embrace and Division

    Brad Christerson, M O Emerson et al.•CHAPTER•Against All Odds•2020

  • What We Learned

    Brad Christerson, M O Emerson et al.•CHAPTER•Against All Odds•2020

  • A spirit of urban capitalism: Market cities, people cities, and cultural justifications

    Kevin T Smiley, M O Emerson•ARTICLE•Urban Research & Practice•2020

    Diverse urban theories discuss how economic processes shape conceptions of a city, but less research focuses on how pragmatic situations of urban life contribute to the characterisation of cities. We argue that pragmatic justifications reify socially constructed meanings of cities by creating a ‘spirit of urban capitalism.’ This framework conceives of two spirits: the market city, which aligns with neoliberal assumptions, and the people city, whi…

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

    Open Access•K D Dougherty, M Chaves et al.•ARTICLE•Journal for the Scientific Study…•2020•Cited by: 11•References: 28

    Racially diverse congregations have become an important part of the American religious landscape. We use data from the National Congregations Study (NCS), notably including data from the fourth wave, collected in 2018–2019, to examine 20 years of racial diversity in congregations. We find that racial diversity within congregations has increased substantially between 1998 and 2019. There are more congregations in which no one racial or ethnic grou…

  • Congregational Switching in an Age of Great Expectations

    Open Access•David Sikkink, M O Emerson et al.•ARTICLE•Review of Religious Research•2020•Cited by: 4•References: 64

    A majority of the American laity has switched congregations at least once in their adult lives, and more than two-thirds of U.S. congregants have previously attended a different congregation (Schwadel in Rev Relig Res 54(4):543-54, 2012). In contrast to religious tradition switching, we know little about the individual-level correlates of congregational switching. In this paper, we provide a framework for understanding congregational switching th…

  • Market Cities, People Cities: The Shape of Our Urban Future

    Open Access•M O Emerson, Kevin T Smiley•ARTICLE•Social Forces•2020

    “Sewage is not sexy” (p. 38). Without getting caught up in the social construction of evaluative judgements and their gendered antecedents as to what is or is not sexy, we can safely accept this statement as true. Despite its lack of aesthetic appeal, however, how cities handle waste—from human and other animal excrement to the bodies they leave behind when they die—is among the most vital decisions for creating sanitary and healthy living enviro…

  • Christian Slavery. Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World, by Katharine Gerbner

    M O Emerson•ARTICLE•Church History and Religious…•2019

  • Immigrant Identities and the Shaping of a Racialized American Self

    Open Access•Katherine Sorrell, Simranjit Khalsa et al.•ARTICLE•Socius Sociological Research for…•2019•Cited by: 8•References: 39

    Immigration scholars largely focus on adaptation processes of immigrant groups, while race scholars focus on structural barriers nonwhite immigrants face. By comparing nonwhite immigrants with native-born Americans, we can better understand how racial logics affect the identification of racial minorities in the United States. Drawing on 153 interviews with Indian, Caribbean, Chinese, Filipino, and Mexican immigrants, and comparing their narrative…

  • The Changing Complexion of American Congregations

    Open Access•K D Dougherty, M O Emerson•ARTICLE•Journal for the Scientific Study…•2018•Cited by: 7•References: 40

    The only constant in life is change, or so goes the familiar refrain. But when it comes to research on multiracial congregations, studying change has largely been overlooked. Questions loom about the changing prevalence, leadership, and composition of racially diverse congregations. Using three waves of data from the National Congregations Study (1998, 2006, and 2012), we offer an overarching examination of racial composition in U.S. congregation…

  • Soul of the City: The Depth of How 'Urban' Matters in the Sociology of Religion

    M O Emerson, Lenore M Knight Johnson•ARTICLE•Sociology of Religion•2018•Cited by: 4•References: 21

    Humanity is undergoing a fundamental, dramatic shift from a rural people to an urban people. Just as importantly, urban areas are growing ever larger. Despite sociology of religion’s role to understand religion within the patterning of human societies, the field has largely ignored how the move to more and ever larger urban areas does and will shape religion. In this article, we present a framework for studying how urban matters. The framework, b…

  • Preserving racial hierarchy amidst changing racial demographics: How Neighbourhood Racial Preferences Are Changing While Maintaining Segregation

    Junia Howell, M O Emerson•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2018•Cited by: 22•References: 33

    Despite long-term, documented declines in racialized attitudes, racial inequality persists. Scholars have theorized why this dissonance exists but few have empirically demonstrated how views can become more progressive while simultaneously maintaining inequality. The present study uses neighbourhood racial preferences and their influence on racial residential segregation to demonstrate how in a diversifying context residents can become more "acce…

  • Immigration Attitudes Before and After Tragedy in Copenhagen: The Importance of Political Affiliation and Safety Concerns

    Open Access•Kevin T Smiley, M O Emerson et al.•ARTICLE•Sociological Forum•2017•Cited by: 4•References: 18

    This research analyzes attitudes on immigration before and after the February 14–15, 2015 Copenhagen shootings. Little research has been conducted on changes in immigration beliefs pre‐ and postcrisis events, and, further, this research has not closely considered how political views and safety concerns may operate within immigration beliefs in an additive, interactive, or mediating fashion. Using the 2014 and 2015 Copenhagen Area Surveys, the lat…

  • So What "Should" We Use? Evaluating the Impact of Five Racial Measures on Markers of Social Inequality

    Open Access•Junia Howell, M O Emerson•ARTICLE•Sociology of Race and Ethnicity•2017•Cited by: 24•References: 24

    In recent years, researchers have increasingly noted the malleability of racial boundaries across time, context, and life course. Although this research has advanced our knowledge of the maintenance and perceptions of racial groups, it has introduced a new question: If we are attempting to best capture the actual variation in racial inequality, how should we operationalize race? Using the 2006 wave of the Portraits of American Life Study, a natio…

  • Does Height Matter? An Examination of Height Preferences in Romantic Coupling

    Open Access•G Yancey, M O Emerson•ARTICLE•Journal of Family Issues•2016•Cited by: 8•References: 34

    Amidst increasingly equality in belief and in practice between the sexes, we ask if height preferences still matter, and if so, why people say they matter. First, we collected data from Yahoo! dating personal advertisements. Second, we used answers to open-ended questions in an online survey. The Yahoo! data document that height is still important in decisions to date but that it is more important to females than to males. Results from the online…

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  • Does Race Matter in Residential Segregation? Exploring the Preferences of White Americans

    M O Emerson, G Yancey et al.•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•2001•Cited by: 276•References: 38

    Employing an alternative methodology and new data, the authors address the debate concerning the underlying causes of racial residential segregation. Are white Americans avoiding racially mixed neighborhoods because they do not want to live with nonwhites? And if so, is this the case independent of factors with which race is associated, such as crime levels or housing values? An over-the-telephone factorial experiment addresses these issues, meas…

  • Contact Theory Extended: The Effects of Prior Racial Contact on Current Social Ties

    Open Access•M O Emerson, Rachel Tolbert Kimbro et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science Quarterly•2002•Cited by: 102•References: 12

    Objective . We address methodological limitations in tests of contact theory. Just as importantly, we extend its theoretical focus to behaviors. Linking insights from social and cognitive psychology with contact theory, we hypothesize that prior racial contact will have significant effects on the racial diversity of contemporary social ties. Methods . Using the 1999–2000 Lilly Survey of Attitudes and Social Networks, we conduct univariate and mul…

  • Equal in Christ, but Not in the World: White Conservative Protestants and Explanations of Black-White Inequality

    M O Emerson, Christian Smith et al.•ARTICLE•Social Problems•1999•Cited by: 84•References: 20

    Equal in Christ, But Not in the World: White Conservative Protestants and Explanations of Black-White Inequality Get access Michael O. Emerson, Michael O. Emerson Direct all correspondence to Michael O. Emerson, Department of Sociology, MS28, P.O. Box 1892, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251-1892. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Christian Smith, Christian Smith Search for oth…

  • The Rise of Religious Fundamentalism

    M O Emerson, David Hartman•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Sociology•2006•Cited by: 75•References: 30

    Religious fundamentalism has risen to worldwide prominence since the 1970s. We review research on fundamentalist movements to learn what religious fundamentalisms are, if and why they appear to be resurging, their characteristics, their possible links to violence, and their relation to modernity. Surveying work over the past two decades, we find both substantial progress in sociological research on such movements and major holes in conceptualizin…

  • Race, Religious Organizations, and Integration

    Korie L Edwards, Brad Christerson et al.•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Sociology•2013•Cited by: 59•References: 54

    We review the bourgeoning literature on multiracial religious organizations. Although scholars have paid attention to racial integration in congregations since the 1940s, only recently has there been a concerted focus on this topic. This article-having reviewed the state of the field-argues that research on this topic must engage in three vital labors: explore more theory building or theory extension, interact with the broader field of sociology,…

  • Multiracial Congregations: An Analysis of Their Development and a Typology

    Open Access•M O Emerson, Karen Chai Kim•ARTICLE•Journal for the Scientific Study…•2003•Cited by: 47•References: 11

    Although the overwhelming majority of religious congregations consist of members who share the same racial background, there are a significant number of multiracial congregations in the United States. We begin with an analysis of why most congregations remain uniracial despite racial integration in other institutions. Then, based on our two-year national study, we examine the key variables underlying the development of multiracial congregations. …

  • School choice and racial segregation in US schools: The role of parents' education

    David Sikkink, M O Emerson•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2008•Cited by: 46•References: 61

    We draw on recent developments in the sociology of race and ethnicity and theories of the duality of social structure to explain how the formation of 'educational identities' interacts with racial stratification to shape the school choices of highly educated whites in the United States. Analysis of the 1996 National Household Education Survey shows that the racial composition of schools plays an important role in the schooling choices of highly e…

  • The Panel Study on American Religion and Ethnicity: Background, Methods, and Selected Results

    Open Access•M O Emerson, David Sikkink et al.•ARTICLE•Journal for the Scientific Study…•2010•Cited by: 38•References: 3

    Surveying 2,610 respondents, the Panel Study of American Religion and Ethnicity is a nationally representative in-home survey of the noninstitutionalized U.S. adult population. The survey is designed to (a) focus primarily on religion and spirituality (with over 200 questions on these topics), (b) include multiple other modules (such as health, family relationships, and social ties), (c) oversample African Americans, Asians, and Hispanics, and (d…

  • The Costs of Diversity in Religious Organizations: An In-Depth Case Study

    Brad Christerson, M O Emerson et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Religion•2003•Cited by: 34

    A significant body of literature has documented and explained the racial and ethnic homogeneity of volunteer organizations, including religious ones. This paper seeks to break new ground by beginning to examine ethnically diverse religious organizations. In this study we ask: What are the personal costs of being in a multiethnic religious organization, and are these costs borne disproportionately by any specific groups of people? Drawing on macro…

  • Studying Race and Religion: A Critical Assessment

    Open Access•M O Emerson, E Korver-Glenn et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Race and Ethnicity•2015•Cited by: 32•References: 81

    The authors provide an analytical review of the past 115 years of scholarship on race, ethnicity, and religion. Too often work in the study of race and ethnicity has not taken the influence of religion seriously enough, with the consequence being an incomplete understanding of racialization, racial and ethnic identity, and racial inequality. The authors examine key works in the field; conduct an assessment of articles published on race, ethnicity…

  • Through Tinted Glasses: Religion, Worldviews, and Abortion Attitudes

    M O Emerson•ARTICLE•Journal for the Scientific Study…•1996•Cited by: 25

    Les chercheurs manquent de criteres permettant d'evaluer les relations entre religion et attitudes face a l'avortement. A partir de considerations theoriques, l'A. evalue la possibilite des conceptions du monde d'intervenir comme facteurs. Les hypotheses additionnelles sont egalement effectuees a partir de la General social survey. Les resultats indiquent que les conceptions du monde interviennent de maniere essentielle dans la relation entre rel…

  • So What "Should" We Use? Evaluating the Impact of Five Racial Measures on Markers of Social Inequality

    Open Access•Junia Howell, M O Emerson•ARTICLE•Sociology of Race and Ethnicity•2017•Cited by: 24•References: 24

    In recent years, researchers have increasingly noted the malleability of racial boundaries across time, context, and life course. Although this research has advanced our knowledge of the maintenance and perceptions of racial groups, it has introduced a new question: If we are attempting to best capture the actual variation in racial inequality, how should we operationalize race? Using the 2006 wave of the Portraits of American Life Study, a natio…

  • Preserving racial hierarchy amidst changing racial demographics: How Neighbourhood Racial Preferences Are Changing While Maintaining Segregation

    Junia Howell, M O Emerson•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2018•Cited by: 22•References: 33

    Despite long-term, documented declines in racialized attitudes, racial inequality persists. Scholars have theorized why this dissonance exists but few have empirically demonstrated how views can become more progressive while simultaneously maintaining inequality. The present study uses neighbourhood racial preferences and their influence on racial residential segregation to demonstrate how in a diversifying context residents can become more "acce…

  • One Market, One Money: An Evaluation of the Potential Benefits and Costs of Forming an Economic and Monetary Union

    Anthony Garratt, M O Emerson et al.•ARTICLE•The Economic Journal•1993•Cited by: 21

    Journal Article One Market, One Money: An Evaluation of the Potential Benefits and Costs of Forming an Economic and Monetary Union Get access One Market, One Money: An Evaluation of the Potential Benefits and Costs of Forming an Economic and Monetary Union. By Emerson (Michael), Gros (Daniel) and Italianer (Alexander). (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. 354. £40.00 hardback, £14.95 paperback. ISBN 0 198773234, 0 198773242.) Anthony Garra…

  • Integrated Sundays: An Exploratory Study into the Formation of Multiracial Churches

    G Yancey, M O Emerson et al.•ARTICLE•Sociological Focus•2003•Cited by: 18•References: 5

    Americans are less likely to develop primary relationships with members of different races than with members of their own race. Thus, organizations in which Americans develop their primary friendships are highly likely to be racially segregated. In a society in which primary interracial relationships are uncommon, multiracial churches are anomalous organizations. The purpose of this paper is to explore how multiracial churches may form. We utiliz…

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

    Open Access•K D Dougherty, M Chaves et al.•ARTICLE•Journal for the Scientific Study…•2020•Cited by: 11•References: 28

    Racially diverse congregations have become an important part of the American religious landscape. We use data from the National Congregations Study (NCS), notably including data from the fourth wave, collected in 2018–2019, to examine 20 years of racial diversity in congregations. We find that racial diversity within congregations has increased substantially between 1998 and 2019. There are more congregations in which no one racial or ethnic grou…

  • Immigrant Identities and the Shaping of a Racialized American Self

    Open Access•Katherine Sorrell, Simranjit Khalsa et al.•ARTICLE•Socius Sociological Research for…•2019•Cited by: 8•References: 39

    Immigration scholars largely focus on adaptation processes of immigrant groups, while race scholars focus on structural barriers nonwhite immigrants face. By comparing nonwhite immigrants with native-born Americans, we can better understand how racial logics affect the identification of racial minorities in the United States. Drawing on 153 interviews with Indian, Caribbean, Chinese, Filipino, and Mexican immigrants, and comparing their narrative…

  • Does Height Matter? An Examination of Height Preferences in Romantic Coupling

    Open Access•G Yancey, M O Emerson•ARTICLE•Journal of Family Issues•2016•Cited by: 8•References: 34

    Amidst increasingly equality in belief and in practice between the sexes, we ask if height preferences still matter, and if so, why people say they matter. First, we collected data from Yahoo! dating personal advertisements. Second, we used answers to open-ended questions in an online survey. The Yahoo! data document that height is still important in decisions to date but that it is more important to females than to males. Results from the online…

  • Is It Different in Dixie? Percent Black and Residential Segregation in the South and non-South

    Open Access•M O Emerson•ARTICLE•Sociological Quarterly•1994•Cited by: 8•References: 17

    Identifying the relationship between the proportion African American and the level of segregation aids in unlocking the key to the past and present state of race relations. National-level studies have found a positive relationship between these variables. Informed by historical and theoretical considerations, I examine the association between the proportion black and segregation by region using 1980 and 1990 central cities. A vast disparity exist…

  • The Changing Complexion of American Congregations

    Open Access•K D Dougherty, M O Emerson•ARTICLE•Journal for the Scientific Study…•2018•Cited by: 7•References: 40

    The only constant in life is change, or so goes the familiar refrain. But when it comes to research on multiracial congregations, studying change has largely been overlooked. Questions loom about the changing prevalence, leadership, and composition of racially diverse congregations. Using three waves of data from the National Congregations Study (1998, 2006, and 2012), we offer an overarching examination of racial composition in U.S. congregation…

  • Religiosity and Social Network Diversity: Decomposing the “Divided by Faith” Theoretical Framework

    Open Access•Jeremy R Porter, M O Emerson•ARTICLE•Social Science Quarterly•2013•Cited by: 7•References: 37

    Objectives Our objective is to extend previous structural explanations of religious belonging and denominational variations concerning “closed communities” and the “divided by faith” thesis to the individual level by testing the effect of religious affiliation and church membership on levels of self‐reported social network diversity among a nationally representative sample. Methods Survey data from the Panel Study—American Religion and Ethnicity …

  • Motivating Civic Engagement: In-Group versus Out-Group Service Orientations among Mexican Americans in Religious and Nonreligious Organizations

    E H Ecklund, C Davila et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Religion•2013•Cited by: 5•References: 16

    Here, we argue for the need to examine the particular contribution of religion to immigrant civic life by comparing a religious and a nonreligious ethnic organization. Specifically, we compare the justifications a Mexican Catholic Church (MCC) provides immigrants for civic service and the focal recipients of this service to those provided by a Mexican ethnic organization (MEO). Our findings show that each organization provides different rationale…

  • Extending the Debate over Nationalism Versus Integration: How Cultural Commitments and Assimilation Trajectories Influence Beliefs About Black Power

    Open Access•Jason E Shelton, M O Emerson•ARTICLE•Journal of African American Studies•2009•Cited by: 5•References: 18

  • Congregational Switching in an Age of Great Expectations

    Open Access•David Sikkink, M O Emerson et al.•ARTICLE•Review of Religious Research•2020•Cited by: 4•References: 64

    A majority of the American laity has switched congregations at least once in their adult lives, and more than two-thirds of U.S. congregants have previously attended a different congregation (Schwadel in Rev Relig Res 54(4):543-54, 2012). In contrast to religious tradition switching, we know little about the individual-level correlates of congregational switching. In this paper, we provide a framework for understanding congregational switching th…

  • Soul of the City: The Depth of How 'Urban' Matters in the Sociology of Religion

    M O Emerson, Lenore M Knight Johnson•ARTICLE•Sociology of Religion•2018•Cited by: 4•References: 21

    Humanity is undergoing a fundamental, dramatic shift from a rural people to an urban people. Just as importantly, urban areas are growing ever larger. Despite sociology of religion’s role to understand religion within the patterning of human societies, the field has largely ignored how the move to more and ever larger urban areas does and will shape religion. In this article, we present a framework for studying how urban matters. The framework, b…

  • The Authority of Language: Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and the Threat of Philosophical Nihilism . James C. Edwards

    M O Emerson, Michael Emerson•ARTICLE•The Journal of Religion•1992

  • Conceptualizing Public Attitudes toward the Welfare State: A Comment on Hasenfeld and Rafferty

    M O Emerson, Mark E Van Buren•ARTICLE•Social Forces•1992•Cited by: 1

    Using structural equation techniques and the LISREL software package, we successfully replicate the results of Hasenfeld and Rafferty's causal model predicting public attitudes toward welfare state programs. By taking advantage of the ability of these techniques to incorporate estimates of measurement error, we also assess the consequences of imperfect measurement in several of their key variables. Our analyses yield results that fail to support …

  • One Market, One Money: An Evaluation of the Potential Benefits and Costs of Forming an Economic and Monetary Union

    Anthony Garratt, M O Emerson et al.•ARTICLE•The Economic Journal•1993•Cited by: 21

    Journal Article One Market, One Money: An Evaluation of the Potential Benefits and Costs of Forming an Economic and Monetary Union Get access One Market, One Money: An Evaluation of the Potential Benefits and Costs of Forming an Economic and Monetary Union. By Emerson (Michael), Gros (Daniel) and Italianer (Alexander). (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. 354. £40.00 hardback, £14.95 paperback. ISBN 0 198773234, 0 198773242.) Anthony Garra…

  • Handbook on International Migration

    M O Emerson, Charles B Nam et al.•REVIEW•Social Forces•1993

  • Is It Different in Dixie? Percent Black and Residential Segregation in the South and non-South

    Open Access•M O Emerson•ARTICLE•Sociological Quarterly•1994•Cited by: 8•References: 17

    Identifying the relationship between the proportion African American and the level of segregation aids in unlocking the key to the past and present state of race relations. National-level studies have found a positive relationship between these variables. Informed by historical and theoretical considerations, I examine the association between the proportion black and segregation by region using 1980 and 1990 central cities. A vast disparity exist…

  • Gambling and problem gambling among adult Minnesotans: Changes 1990 to 1994

    Open Access•M O Emerson, J Clark Laundergan•ARTICLE•Journal of Gambling Studies•1996

  • Through Tinted Glasses: Religion, Worldviews, and Abortion Attitudes

    M O Emerson•ARTICLE•Journal for the Scientific Study…•1996•Cited by: 25

    Les chercheurs manquent de criteres permettant d'evaluer les relations entre religion et attitudes face a l'avortement. A partir de considerations theoriques, l'A. evalue la possibilite des conceptions du monde d'intervenir comme facteurs. Les hypotheses additionnelles sont egalement effectuees a partir de la General social survey. Les resultats indiquent que les conceptions du monde interviennent de maniere essentielle dans la relation entre rel…

  • Resurgent Evangelicalism in the United States: Mapping Cultural Change Since 1970

    M O Emerson, Mark A Shibley•ARTICLE•Review of Religious Research•1997

  • American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving

    John Schmalzbauer, Christian Smith et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Religion•1999

    Journal Article American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving, by Christian Smith with Michael Emerson, Sally Gallagher, Paul Kennedy and David Sikkink. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998, 310 pp. $45.00, $16.00 (pbk) Get access John Schmalzbauer John Schmalzbauer College of the Holy Cross Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 60, Issue 3, Fall 1999, Pages 336–337, htt…

  • Civil Rights and Social Wrongs: Black-White Relations Since World War II

    M O Emerson, John Higham•ARTICLE•Social Forces•1999

  • Equal in Christ, but Not in the World: White Conservative Protestants and Explanations of Black-White Inequality

    M O Emerson, Christian Smith et al.•ARTICLE•Social Problems•1999•Cited by: 84•References: 20

    Equal in Christ, But Not in the World: White Conservative Protestants and Explanations of Black-White Inequality Get access Michael O. Emerson, Michael O. Emerson Direct all correspondence to Michael O. Emerson, Department of Sociology, MS28, P.O. Box 1892, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251-1892. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Christian Smith, Christian Smith Search for oth…

  • Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America

    M O Emerson•REVIEW•Social Forces•2000•Cited by: 2

  • An Analysis of Resistance to Racial Exogamy: The 1998 South Carolina Referendum

    Open Access•G Yancey, George A Yancey et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Black Studies•2001

  • An Analysis of Resistance to Racial Exogamy: The 1998 South Carolina Referendum

    Open Access•G Yancey, George A Yancey et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Black Studies•2001

    Support for biracial unions is a significant barometer of American race relations (Aldridge, 1978; Gordon, 1964; Porterfield, 1978). It is also useful for assessing the social acceptance of racial minority groups (Lewis, Yancey, & Bletzer 1997; Yancey & Yancey, 1998). Historically, opposition to interracial unions, especially those consisting of Blacks and Whites, was an important source for legitimizing racial segregation (Myrdal, 1964; Spickard…

  • Does Race Matter in Residential Segregation? Exploring the Preferences of White Americans

    M O Emerson, G Yancey et al.•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•2001•Cited by: 276•References: 38

    Employing an alternative methodology and new data, the authors address the debate concerning the underlying causes of racial residential segregation. Are white Americans avoiding racially mixed neighborhoods because they do not want to live with nonwhites? And if so, is this the case independent of factors with which race is associated, such as crime levels or housing values? An over-the-telephone factorial experiment addresses these issues, meas…

  • Contact Theory Extended: The Effects of Prior Racial Contact on Current Social Ties

    Open Access•M O Emerson, Rachel Tolbert Kimbro et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science Quarterly•2002•Cited by: 102•References: 12

    Objective . We address methodological limitations in tests of contact theory. Just as importantly, we extend its theoretical focus to behaviors. Linking insights from social and cognitive psychology with contact theory, we hypothesize that prior racial contact will have significant effects on the racial diversity of contemporary social ties. Methods . Using the 1999–2000 Lilly Survey of Attitudes and Social Networks, we conduct univariate and mul…

  • A Particular Place: Urban Restructuring and Religious Ecology in a Southern Exurb

    M O Emerson, Michael Emerson et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Religion•2002

    Journal Article A Particular Place: Urban Restructuring and Religious Ecology in a Southern Exurb, by Nancy L. Eiesland. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000, 254 pp. $52.00 (cloth), $21.00 (paper) Get access Michael Emerson Michael Emerson Rice University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 63, Issue 1, Spring 2002, Pages 120–121, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712547 Publ…

  • United by Faith: The Multiracial Congregation as an Answer to the Problem of Race

    Curtiss Paul DeYoung, M O Emerson et al.•BOOK•United by faith•2003

    In the last four decades, desegregation has revolutionized almost every aspect of life in the United States: schools, businesses, government offices, even entertainment. But there is one area that remains largely untouched, and that is the church. Now comes a major new call for multiracial congregations in every possible setting—a call that is surprisingly controversial, even in the 21st century. This book looks at relationships between the races…

  • Integrated Sundays: An Exploratory Study into the Formation of Multiracial Churches

    G Yancey, M O Emerson et al.•ARTICLE•Sociological Focus•2003•Cited by: 18•References: 5

    Americans are less likely to develop primary relationships with members of different races than with members of their own race. Thus, organizations in which Americans develop their primary friendships are highly likely to be racially segregated. In a society in which primary interracial relationships are uncommon, multiracial churches are anomalous organizations. The purpose of this paper is to explore how multiracial churches may form. We utiliz…

  • The Costs of Diversity in Religious Organizations: An In-Depth Case Study

    Brad Christerson, M O Emerson et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Religion•2003•Cited by: 34

    A significant body of literature has documented and explained the racial and ethnic homogeneity of volunteer organizations, including religious ones. This paper seeks to break new ground by beginning to examine ethnically diverse religious organizations. In this study we ask: What are the personal costs of being in a multiethnic religious organization, and are these costs borne disproportionately by any specific groups of people? Drawing on macro…

  • Multiracial Congregations: An Analysis of Their Development and a Typology

    Open Access•M O Emerson, Karen Chai Kim•ARTICLE•Journal for the Scientific Study…•2003•Cited by: 47•References: 11

    Although the overwhelming majority of religious congregations consist of members who share the same racial background, there are a significant number of multiracial congregations in the United States. We begin with an analysis of why most congregations remain uniracial despite racial integration in other institutions. Then, based on our two-year national study, we examine the key variables underlying the development of multiracial congregations. …

  • Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America

    R H Williams, M O Emerson et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Religion•2004

    Journal Article They Call Him Pastor: Married Men in Charge of Catholic Parishes by Ruth A. Wallace. New York/Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2003, 276pp; $19.95 Get access Susan A. Farrell Susan A. Farrell Kingsborough Community College, CUNY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 2, Summer 2004, Pages 187–188, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712407 Published: 01 July 2004

  • Racial Context, Black Immigration and the U.S. Black/White Health Disparity

    Jen’nan Ghazal Read, M O Emerson•ARTICLE•Social Forces•2005

    The United States' black/white health gap is an important consequence of racial inequality. The gap is large, shows little signs of declining, and explanations have been limited by lack of theory and data. A new direction that offers potential for theoretical development is a focus on black immigrants, a group that shares the same racial status as U.S.-born blacks but experiences significantly better health. Using new data on the 2000–2002 Nation…

  • Against All Odds: The Struggle for Racial Integration in Religious Organizations

    Brad Christerson, M O Emerson et al.•BOOK•Against All Odds•2005

    Religious institutions are among the most segregated organizations in American society. This segregation has long been a troubling issue among scholars and religious leaders alike. Despite attempts to address this racial divide, integrated churches are very difficult to maintain over time. Why is this so? How can organizations incorporate separate racial, ethnic, and cultural groups? Should they? And what are the costs and rewards for people and …

  • Implications of Black Immigrant Health for U.S. Racial Disparities in Health

    Open Access•Jen’nan Ghazal Read, M O Emerson et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Immigrant Health•2005

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