Race, nation, and religion in the Americas /
Race, nation, and religion in the Americas /
edited by Henry Goldschmidt and Elizabeth McAlister.
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 338 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 / A great racial commission: religion and the construction of white America / Catholic Afro mass and the dance of eurocentrism in Brazil / 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 / Catholics, Creoles and the redefinition of race in New Orleans / Beyond the binary : revisiting Father Divine, Daddy Grace, and their ministries / Legislating "civilization" in postrevolutionary Haiti / The civilization of white men : the race of the Hindu in United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind / 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 / Daniel Murphree -- Elizabeth McAlister -- Daniel B. Lee -- John Burdick -- Derek Chang -- Julia Cummings O'Hara -- James B. Bennett -- Danielle Brune Sigler -- Kate Ramsey -- Jennifer Snow -- Lindsay Hale -- Judith Weisenfeld.
A collection of new essays exploring the complex and unstable articulations of race and religion. Drawing on original research, the authors investigate how race and religion have defined global relations, shaped the everyday lives of individuals and communities and how communities use religion to contest the power of racism.
9780199835386 0199835381 9780195149180 0195149181
Black people--Religion.--America
African Americans--Religion.
Indians--Religion.
Jews--History.--America
America--Race relations--History.
America--Religion.
Electronic books.
305.60973
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 / A great racial commission: religion and the construction of white America / Catholic Afro mass and the dance of eurocentrism in Brazil / 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 / Catholics, Creoles and the redefinition of race in New Orleans / Beyond the binary : revisiting Father Divine, Daddy Grace, and their ministries / Legislating "civilization" in postrevolutionary Haiti / The civilization of white men : the race of the Hindu in United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind / 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 / Daniel Murphree -- Elizabeth McAlister -- Daniel B. Lee -- John Burdick -- Derek Chang -- Julia Cummings O'Hara -- James B. Bennett -- Danielle Brune Sigler -- Kate Ramsey -- Jennifer Snow -- Lindsay Hale -- Judith Weisenfeld.
A collection of new essays exploring the complex and unstable articulations of race and religion. Drawing on original research, the authors investigate how race and religion have defined global relations, shaped the everyday lives of individuals and communities and how communities use religion to contest the power of racism.
9780199835386 0199835381 9780195149180 0195149181
Black people--Religion.--America
African Americans--Religion.
Indians--Religion.
Jews--History.--America
America--Race relations--History.
America--Religion.
Electronic books.
305.60973