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Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas

By Elizabeth McAlister , Henry Goldschmidt

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2004
ISBN
019514919X, 9780195149197, 0195149181, 9780195149180
LCC
E29.A1 R33 2004
Open Library ID
OL3692948M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2822492 bytes)
Pages
353\353
Topic
Religion
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The pioneering essays collected in this volume bring critical new perspectives to the interdisciplinary study of racial, national, and religious identities. The authors demonstrate that one cannot study these categories of identity formation in isolation, but must instead examine the ways each intersects with-and ultimately helps construct-the others. This innovative theoretical perspective sheds new light on the role of religion in shaping the lives of diverse communities throughout the Americas and forces us to reevaluate the reductive opposition between secular and religious identities. The twelve essays in the volume explore the ties between race, nation, and religion in ethnographic and historical detail. Topics range from Jesuit mission work to Hollywood film, manifest destiny to liberation theology, the Haitian Rara festival to American immigration law. In these and other contexts, the authors explore the intertwined histories of a hemisphere defined at the charged intersections of race, nation, and religion.

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