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Race, nation, and religion in the Americas [electronic resource] / edited by Henry Goldschmidt and Elizabeth McAlister

Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 338 pages) : illustrations
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Goldschmidt, Henry and McAlister, Elizabeth A.
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: Introduction : race, nation, and religion / Henry Goldschmidt -- Sect. I "Heathens" and "Jews" in the colonial imagination -- 1.Race and religion on the periphery : disappointment and missionization in the Spanish Floridas, 1566-1763 / Daniel Murphree -- 2.The Jew in the Haitian imagination : a popular history of anti-Judaism and proto-racism / Elizabeth McAlister -- Sect. II Constructing and critiquing white Christianities -- 3.A great racial commission : religion and the construction of white America / Daniel B. Lee -- 4.The Catholic afro mass and the dance of eurocentrism in Brazil / John Burdick -- Sect. III Race and nation in the mission field -- 5."Marked in body, mind, and spirit" : home missionaries and the remaking of race and nation / Derek Chang -- 6."In search of souls, in search of Indians" : religion and the "Indian problem" in Northern Mexico / Julia Cummings O'Hara -- Sect. IV Segregation, congregation, and the North American racial binary -- 7.Catholics, creoles, and the redefinition of race in New Orleans / James B. Bennett -- 8.Beyond the binary : revisiting father divine, daddy Grace, and their ministries / Danielle Brune Sigler -- Sect. V Policing the racial and religious boundaries of "Civilization" -- 9.Legislating "civilization" in postrevolutionary Haiti / Kate Ramsey -- 10.The civilization of white men : the race of the Hindu in United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind / Jennifer Snow -- Sect. VI Sense and sensuality in rituals and representations of race -- 11.The house of Saint Benedict, the house of father John : umbanda aesthetics and a politics of the senses / Lindsay Hale.
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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9780199835386 (ebook)
0199835381 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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