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Merisa Davis on Bill Cosby, Religion, and African American Churches

Tags: African American churches, Bill Cosby, Bishop Charles Blake, Brown vs Board of Education, Colin Powell, crime, delinquency, education, Murray vs Curlett, Pastor Tony Evans, Pound Cake Speech, prison ministry, prosperity gospel

Merisa Parson Davis joins Research on Religion to talk about her new book on Bill Cosby’s much publicized “Pound Cake Speech” that he gave to an audience on the 50th anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education. She points out that much of the discussion of this speech in the popular media overlooked the religious dimensions of Dr. Cosby’s remarks. We discuss how African American churches and other religious organizations have responded (and can respond) to various social problems facing the Black community, including school dropout rates, incarceration of young Black men, and the challenge of entrepreneurship in the inner city. Your host also reveals his three favorite shows growing up.

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Byron Johnson on Religion & Delinquency

Tags: abstinence programs, Amachi, Boston Miracle, church attendance, crime, delinquency, drug use, public policy, sexual promiscuity, teenagers

What effect does religious participation have on reducing teenage delinquency? Sociologist Byron Johnson, director of Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion, reviews a number of studies on how church attendance leads to lower levels of deleterious behavior among teens and young adults. (To download, right click on the button to the right and choose “save target as….”)

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