Perseverance in the Parish? Religious Attitudes from a Black Catholic Perspective
Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture 1025 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde ParkFree and open to the public. Cosponsored by Catholic Theological Union and the Ethics Club at the Divinity School. Do African-American Catholics perceive or experience aspects of racial intolerance and marginalization in their parishes? Does racial marginalization in the Church compel African-American Catholics to disengage and leave their parish? Darren Davis’ provocative new book, Perseverance in the Parish? Religious Attitudes from a Black Catholic Perspective, examines data from the first national survey of African American Catholics. He finds that African-American respondents, though small in number, are among the strongest religious identifiers in the Church. In contrast to narratives that stress...
