The forging of races : race and scripture in the Protestant Atlantic world, 1600-2000 / Colin Kidd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kidd, Colin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Race--Biblical teaching.

Race.

Race--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 309 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book revolutionises our understanding of race. Building upon the insight that races are products of culture rather than biology, Colin Kidd demonstrates that the Bible - the key text in Western culture - has left a vivid imprint on modern racial theories and prejudices. Fixing his attention on the changing relationship between race and theology in the Protestant Atlantic world between 1600 and 2000 Kidd shows that, while the Bible itself is colour-blind, its interpreters have imported racial significance into the scriptures. Kidd's study probes the theological anxieties which lurked behind the confident facade of of white racial supremacy in the age of empire and race slavery, as well as the ways in which racialist ideas left their mark upon new forms of religiosity. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the histories of race or religion.

Contents:

Prologue : race in the eye of the beholder

Introduction : race as scripture problem

Race and religious orthodoxy in the early modern era

Race, the Enlightenment and the authority of scripture

Monogenesis, slavery and the nineteenth-century crisis of faith

The Aryan moment : racialising religion in the nineteenth century

Forms of racialized religion

Black counter-theologies.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-304) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-15874-5

1-280-70288-5

0-511-81785-1

0-511-24626-9

0-511-24435-5

0-511-24703-6

0-511-31865-0

0-511-24510-6

OCLC:

259808275