Religion and the creation of race and ethnicity
Subtitle: an introduction
By: edited by Craig R. Prentiss
Contributors: Prentiss, Craig R
Series: Race, religion, and ethnicity; Religion, race, and ethnicity
Publisher: New York University
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Ethnicity -- Religious aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: "A servant of servants shall he be" : the construction of race in American religious mythologies / Paul Harvey; title: Myth and African American self-identity / Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.; title: Almost white : the ambivalent promise of Christian missions among the Cherokees / Joel Martin; title: Indigenous identity and story : the telling of our part in the sacred homeland / Nimachia Hernandez; title: Jew and Judaist, ethnic and religious : how they mix in America / Jacob Neusner; title: Blackness in the Nation of Islam / Aminah Beverly McCloud; title: Theologizing race : the construction of "Christian identity" / Douglas E. Cowan; title: "Loathsome unto thy people" : the Latter-Day Saints and racial categorization / Craig R. Prentiss; title: Our Lady of Guadalupe : the heart of Mexican identity / Roberto S. Goizueta; title: Myths, Shinto, and matsuri in the shaping of Japanese cultural identity / John K. Nelson; title: Islam, Arabs, and ethnicity / Azzam Tamimi; title: Cosmic men and fluid exchanges : myths of ārya, varṇa, and jāti in the Hindu tradition / Laurie L. Patton; title: Religious myth and the construction of Shona identity / Chirevo V. Kwenda; title: Sacral ruins in Bosnia-Herzegovina : mapping ethnoreligious nationalism / Michael A. Sells