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Race, nation, and religion in the Americas / edited by Henry Goldschmidt and Elizabeth McAlister.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 338 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199835386
  • 0199835381
  • 9780195149180
  • 0195149181
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification:
  • 305.60973 22
Online resources:
Contents:
Race and religion on the periphery: disappointment and missionization in the Spanish Floridas, 1566-1763 / Daniel Murphree -- The Jew in the Haitian imagination: a popular history of anti-Judaism and proto-racism / Elizabeth McAlister -- A great racial commission: religion and the construction of white America / Daniel B. Lee -- Catholic Afro mass and the dance of eurocentrism in Brazil / John Burdick -- Marked in body, mind and spirit : home missionaries and the remaking of race and nation / Derek Chang -- In search of souls, in search of Indians : religion and the "Indian problem" in northern Mexico / Julia Cummings O'Hara -- Catholics, Creoles and the redefinition of race in New Orleans / James B. Bennett -- Beyond the binary : revisiting Father Divine, Daddy Grace, and their ministries / Danielle Brune Sigler -- Legislating "civilization" in postrevolutionary Haiti / Kate Ramsey -- The civilization of white men : the race of the Hindu in United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind / Jennifer Snow -- The House of Saint Benedict, the House of Father John : Umbanda aesthetics and a politics of the senses / Lindsay Hale -- Projecting Blackness : African-American religion in the Hollywood imagination / Judith Weisenfeld.
Summary: 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.
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Race and religion on the periphery: disappointment and missionization in the Spanish Floridas, 1566-1763 / Daniel Murphree -- The Jew in the Haitian imagination: a popular history of anti-Judaism and proto-racism / Elizabeth McAlister -- A great racial commission: religion and the construction of white America / Daniel B. Lee -- Catholic Afro mass and the dance of eurocentrism in Brazil / John Burdick -- Marked in body, mind and spirit : home missionaries and the remaking of race and nation / Derek Chang -- In search of souls, in search of Indians : religion and the "Indian problem" in northern Mexico / Julia Cummings O'Hara -- Catholics, Creoles and the redefinition of race in New Orleans / James B. Bennett -- Beyond the binary : revisiting Father Divine, Daddy Grace, and their ministries / Danielle Brune Sigler -- Legislating "civilization" in postrevolutionary Haiti / Kate Ramsey -- The civilization of white men : the race of the Hindu in United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind / Jennifer Snow -- The House of Saint Benedict, the House of Father John : Umbanda aesthetics and a politics of the senses / Lindsay Hale -- Projecting Blackness : African-American religion in the Hollywood imagination / 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

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