Religion and the creation of race and ethnicity : an introduction /

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Contributors: Prentiss, Craig R., (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University, [2003]
Series:Religion, race, and ethnicity
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Table of 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, varnạ, and jāti in the Hindu tradition / Laurie Patton
  • Religious myth and the construction of Shona identity / Chirevo V. Kwenda
  • Sacral ruins in Bosnia-Herzegovina : mapping ethnoreligious nationalism / Michael A. Sells.