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Religion and the Creation of Race and Ethnicity : an Introduction.

Religion and the Creation of Race and Ethnicity is the first collection devoted to demonstrating the role that religion and myth have played in the creation of the categories of "race" and "ethnicity.". When scholars approach religion and race, they tend to focus on such issues a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Prentiss, Craig R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2003.
Colección:Religion, Race, & Ethnicity.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • "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.