Almighty God Created the Races : Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law /

Botham argues that divergent Catholic and Protestant theologies of marriage and race, reinforced by regional differences between the West and the South, shaped the two pivotal cases that frame this volume, the 1948 California Supreme Court case of Perez v. Lippold (which successfully challenged Cali...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Botham, Fay, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Religion et droit > États-Unis > Histoire.
Blandäktenskap > historia > Förenta staterna.
Religion and law.
Interracial marriage > Law and legislation.
RELIGION > General.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Religion and law > United States > History.
Interracial marriage > Law and legislation > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Botham argues that divergent Catholic and Protestant theologies of marriage and race, reinforced by regional differences between the West and the South, shaped the two pivotal cases that frame this volume, the 1948 California Supreme Court case of Perez v. Lippold (which successfully challenged California's antimiscegenation statutes on the grounds of religious freedom) and the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia (which declared legal bans on interracial marriage unconstitutional). Botham contends that the white southern Protestant notion that God "dispersed" the races, as opposed to the American Catholic emphasis on human unity and common origins, points to ways that religion influenced the course of litigation and illuminates the religious bases for Christian racist and antiracist movements. --from publisher description.
Physical Description:1 online resource (288 pages).
ISBN:9781469604602

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