Race, religion, region : landscapes of encounter in the American West / edited by Fay Botham and Sara M. Patterson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Botham, Fay, 1968-

Patterson, Sara M., 1974-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

West (U.S.)--Race relations--History.

West (U.S.).

West (U.S.)--Ethnic relations--History.

West (U.S.)--Religious life and customs.

Minorities--Religious life--West (U.S.).

Minorities.

Minorities--Religious life.

Physical Description:

viii, 190 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2006]

Contents:

Going against the grain : multiracialism and the fate of the social gospel in 1920s Los Angeles / William Deverell and Mark Wild

Religion, immigrants, and Americanizers in Los Angeles, 1900-1925 / Michael E. Engh

Bringing in the sheets : Robert Shuler, the Ku Klux Klan, and the southernization of Southern California / Daniel Cady

Engaging habits and besotted idolatry : viewing Chinese religions in the American West / Laurie Maffly-Kipp

Bodies on borders : African Americans, penitentes, and social order in the Southwest / Pablo Mitchell

Modernists, Pueblo Indians, and the politics of primitivism / Tisa Wenger

Children of Ham and children of Abraham : the construction and deconstruction of ethnic identities in the Mormon heartland / Armand L. Mauss

E pluribus unum : the Islamic Center of Southern California and the making of an American Muslim identity / Mary Jane O'Donnell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-180) and index.

ISBN:

0816524785

OCLC:

62728421

Publisher Number:

9780816524785