Religion and the creation of race and ethnicity : an introduction / edited by Craig R. Prentiss.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Prentiss, Craig R.

Series:

Religion, race, and ethnicity

Race, religion, and ethnicity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity--Religious aspects.

Ethnicity.

Physical Description:

x, 243 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University, [2003]

Contents:

"A servant of servants shall he be" : the construction of race in American religious mythologies / Paul Harvey

Myth and African American self-identity / Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.

Almost white : the ambivalent promise of Christian missions among the Cherokees / Joel Martin

Indigenous identity and story : the telling of our part in the sacred homeland / Nimachia Hernandez

Jew and Judaist, ethnic and religious : how they mix in America / Jacob Neusner

Blackness in the Nation of Islam / Aminah Beverly McCloud

Theologizing race : the construction of "Christian identity" / Douglas E. Cowan

"Loathsome unto thy people" : the Latter-Day Saints and racial categorization / Craig R. Prentiss

Our Lady of Guadalupe : the heart of Mexican identity / Roberto S. Goizueta

Myths, Shinto, and matsuri in the shaping of Japanese cultural identity / John K. Nelson

Islam, Arabs, and ethnicity / Azzam Tamimi

Cosmic men and fluid exchanges : myths of ārya, varṇa, and jāti in the Hindu tradition / Laurie L. Patton

Religious myth and the construction of Shona identity / Chirevo V. Kwenda

Sacral ruins in Bosnia-Herzegovina : mapping ethnoreligious nationalism / Michael A. Sells.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0814767001

081476701X

OCLC:

50868272