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If America is a melting pot, what does this mean for Christianity in America? This course will focus on African Americans' direct and indirect shaping of various theological and confessional traditions in the United States. The emphasis is on the predominantly African American denominations, but the course will also explore the impact on denominations in which African Americans are a statistically small minority. But the history of African American traditions will be a starting point, a model case. Beyond the story of Black and White in American Christianity, we shall consider other strands of the tapestry of American pluralistic society, seeking stories of the richness that pluralism has brought to American Christianity. How do we capture the benefits and address the problems?
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