Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas

Name: Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas
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ISBN: 9780195149197

ISBN-10: 019514919X

ISBN-13: 9780195149197

Edition: 2004

Authors: Henry Goldschmidt, Elizabeth McAlister, Elizabeth McAlister, Elizabeth McAlister

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The pioneering essays collected in this volume bring critical new perspectives to the interdisciplinary study of racial, national, and religious identities. The authors demonstrate that one cannot study these categories of identity formation in isolation, but must instead examine the ways each intersects with-and ultimately helps construct-the others. This innovative theoretical perspective sheds new light on the role of religion in shaping the lives of diverse communities throughout the Americas and forces us to reevaluate the reductive opposition between secular and religious identities. The twelve essays in the volume explore the ties between race, nation, and religion in ethnographic…

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List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/12/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.14" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Introduction : race, nation, and religion




"Heathens" and "Jews" in the colonial imagination



Race and religion on the periphery : disappointment and missionization in the Spanish Floridas, 1566-1763




The Jew in the Haitian imagination : a popular history of anti-Judaism and proto-racism




Constructing and critiquing white Christianities



A great racial commission : religion and the construction of white America




The Catholic afro mass and the dance of eurocentrism in Brazil




Race and nation in the mission field



"Marked in body, mind, and spirit" : home missionaries and the remaking of race and nation




"In search of souls, in search of Indians" : religion and the "Indian problem" in Northern Mexico




Segregation, congregation, and the North American racial binary



Catholics, creoles, and the redefinition of race in New Orleans




Beyond the binary : revisiting father divine, daddy Grace, and their ministries




Policing the racial and religious boundaries of "Civilization"



Legislating "civilization" in postrevolutionary Haiti




The civilization of white men : the race of the Hindu in United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind




Sense and sensuality in rituals and representations of race



The house of Saint Benedict, the house of father John : umbanda aesthetics and a politics of the senses




Projecting blackness : African-American religion in the hollywood imagination