Religion and the Creation of Race and Ethnicity An Introduction

Name: Religion and the Creation of Race and Ethnicity An Introduction
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ISBN: 9780814767016

ISBN-10: 081476701X

ISBN-13: 9780814767016

Edition: 2003

Authors: Craig R. Prentiss

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View the Table of Contents .nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;Read the Introduction . "This book intends to speak to a general audience, and... it succeeds very well." Multicultural Review "The essays in this volume make a significant contribution to the scholarship on the interrelationships among religion and race and ethnicity." Choice Religion and the Creation of Race and Ethnicityis the first collection devoted to demonstrating the role that religion and myth have played in the creation of the categories of "race" and "ethnicity." When scholars approach religion and race, they tend to focus on such issues as how African Americans have expressed Christianity, or how Japanese or Mexicans have lived…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 6/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 243
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Craig R. Prentiss is Professor of Religious Studies at Rockhurst University, Kansas City, Missouri.



Acknowledgments


Introduction




"A Servant of Servants Shall He Be": The Construction of Race in American Religious Mythologies




Myth and African American Self-Identity




Almost White: The Ambivalent Promise of Christian Missions among the Cherokees




Indigenous Identity and Story: The Telling of Our Part in the Sacred Homeland




Jew and Judaist, Ethnic and Religious: How They Mix in America




Blackness in the Nation of Islam




Theologizing Race: The Construction of "Christian Identity"




"Loathsome unto Thy People": The Latter-day Saints and Racial Categorization




Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Heart of Mexican Identity




Myths, Shinto, and Matsuri in the Shaping of Japanese Cultural Identity




Islam, Arabs, and Ethnicity




Cosmic Men and Fluid Exchanges: Myths of Arya, Varna, and Jati in the Hindu Tradition




Religious Myth and the Construction of Shona Identity




Sacral Ruins in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Mapping Ethnoreligious Nationalism



About the Contributors


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