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Black Churches

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Author(s): Jelks, Randal M. | Gerloff, Roswith I. H.
1. In the United States 1.1. Introduction Black churches in the United States represent a group of diverse congregations and historic denominations that have been fostered by, and are representative of, American Christians of African descent. African American denominations, like the majority of churches in the United States, are overwhelmingly Protestant, falling into three broad categories of Baptist, Methodist, and Pentecostal. Although African Americans have enduring historic relations within Roman …