Key points are not available for this paper at this time.
This research note reports evidence from diverse sources in order to depict aspects of change and stability in the religion of American blacks since the upsuge in black protest in the early 1960s. The evidence does not support earlier predictions of widespread apostasy and conversions to Catholicism, "high-status" Protestant denominations, and black nationalist sects and cults. Blacks as a whole report a continued high level of church attendance and confidence in the clergy, although, for reasons which are not clear, there has been a steep decline in the number of black clergymen. Recent evidence lends little support to the traditional image of black religion (reported by Dollard, among others) as unusually otherworldly and nonascetic.
Glenn et al. (Thu,) studied this question.